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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the birch bark boxes that the author's ancestors carried sugar made from sap in called?
(a) Puhpowee.
(b) Wiingaashk.
(c) Ode'mini-giizis.
(d) Makaks.

2. What is the animate form of "to be," in the author's people's language?
(a) Yawe.
(b) Puhpowee.
(c) Wiingaashk.
(d) Ode'mini-giizis.

3. Along what river does the author describe her grandfather collecting pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) The Niagara River.
(b) The Arkansas River.
(c) The Canadian River.
(d) The Ottawa River.

4. In her metaphor for basket weaving in "Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket," the author says "we need to pay attention to the lessons of the three rows" (183). What does the first row represent?
(a) Community.
(b) Material welfare.
(c) Ecological well-being.
(d) Science.

5. Scientists have discovered an enzyme in the saliva of what animal that stimulates grass growth?
(a) Deer.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Cows.
(d) Sheep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the names of Skywoman's daughter's twins, whom she gave birth to before dying, according to the author in "The Gift of Strawberries"?

2. 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)?

3. According to the author in "A Mother's Work," Onondaga Lake has a reputation for being one of the most what lakes in the country?

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

5. What were the names of Hazel's children, according to the narrator in "Witch Hazel"?

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