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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Hydrodictyon" is said to be Latin for what, in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) The water net.
(b) The burning bush.
(c) The single eye.
(d) The reformer.

2. What ecotheologian wrote, "We must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects" (74)?
(a) Lewis Hyde.
(b) Bruce King.
(c) Johann Goethe.
(d) Thomas Berry.

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

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

5. Tahawus is the Algonquin name for what mountain, according to the author in "An Offering"?
(a) Mount Shasta.
(b) Mount Rainier.
(c) Mount Brady.
(d) Mount Marcy.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where were the author's ancestors first removed from their land, according to the narrative in "The Council of Pecans"?

2. From whose perspective is "Witch Hazel" narrated?

3. In the author's metaphor for the Three Sisters as an emerging relationship between Western science and indigenous knowledge, the corn signifies what?

4. What grew from the breasts of Skywoman's daughter, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?

5. Who was Hazel's husband?

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