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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the author's grandfather?
(a) Asa Wall.
(b) Bruce King.
(c) Lewis Hyde.
(d) Oren Lyons.

2. What is the message taught by the Pecan Council in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) War is sometimes necessary.
(b) The Windigo is all-powerful.
(c) There is strength in unity.
(d) There is strength in solitude.

3. What were the names of Hazel's children, according to the narrator in "Witch Hazel"?
(a) James and Sally.
(b) Sam and Janie.
(c) Emily and Peter.
(d) Sarah and John.

4. What is the author's people's word for cedar?
(a) Makaks.
(b) Zhawanong.
(c) Kizhig.
(d) Puhpowee.

5. After how many years does the author say her pond is now nearly swimmable in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote in an 1890 treatise that “the colors diametrically opposed to each other . . . are those which reciprocally evoke each other in the eye" (61)?

2. What do the author and her neighbors call the one gas station in her community, according to the narrative in "Maple Nation: A Citizenship Guide"?

3. What is the Anishinaabe word for maple?

4. What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen gas?

5. To whom is the following quote attributed in "Burning Cascade Head"? "“The dance of renewal, the dance that made the world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast" (288).

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