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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Braiding Sweetgrass.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word do the author's people use to mean East?
(a) Wabunong.
(b) Nanabozho.
(c) Wiingaashk.
(d) Makaks.

2. What is the scientific name for the yellow water-lily?
(a) Amylase.
(b) Nuphar lutea.
(c) Carya illinoensis.
(d) Solidago canadensis.

3. How many times does the author say her ancestors were "removed" in the span of a single generation in "The Council of Pecans" (21)?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 9.

4. In what small village is Evon Peter a Chief in northeastern Alaska?
(a) Homer.
(b) Arctic Village.
(c) Wasilla.
(d) Sitka.

5. The narrator of "Witch Hazel" says that she first met Hazel Barnett when she was walking the fields where?
(a) Washington.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Nevada.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Nanabozho's people know time, according to the author in "In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

2. Among "The Three Sisters," who is the firstborn?

3. What word refers to the sacred tobacco among the author's people?

4. What was the name of the author's grandfather?

5. Who wrote The Mishomis Book?

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