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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of bird's nest did the author find in the willows around her pond in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Sparrow.
(b) Barn swallow.
(c) Raven.
(d) Yellow warbler.

2. What is the Anishinaabe word for maple?
(a) Ode'mini-giizis.
(b) Anenemik.
(c) Yawe.
(d) Wiingaashk.

3. Who is the Onondaga Faithkeeper who told the author, "Of course you should write about it. It’s supposed to be shared, otherwise how can it work? We’ve been waiting five hundred years for people to listen. If they’d understood the Thanksgiving then, we wouldn’t be in this mess" (142)?
(a) Thomas Berry.
(b) Lewis Hyde.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Oren Lyons.

4. What direction does a doorway always face in indigenous homes, according to the author in "Sitting in a Circle"?
(a) East.
(b) South.
(c) West.
(d) North.

5. What is one of the names for the cattail in the Potawatomi language, meaning "we wrap the baby in it" (275)?
(a) Zhawanong.
(b) Hierochloe odorata.
(c) Bewiieskwinuk.
(d) Zizibaskwet Giizis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the second row represent in the author's metaphor for basket weaving in "Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket"?

2. What grew from Skywoman's daughter's head when she was buried in the earth, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?

3. What term refers to fields with many species of plants?

4. Where did the author grow up?

5. What is the "boom and bust cycle" of nut trees called, according to the author in "The Council of Pecans" (23)?

(see the answer key)

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