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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the process in a bean shoot in which the vine inscribes a circle in the air?
(a) Eutrophication.
(b) Amylase.
(c) Circumnutation.
(d) Nuphar lutea.

2. What is Lionel's profession, as detailed in "The Honorable Harvest"?
(a) He is a miner.
(b) He is a dentist.
(c) He is a trapper.
(d) He is a farmer.

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

4. What refers to "the natural process of nutrient enrichment that comes with age," and what happened to the author's pond in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Solidago canadensis.
(b) Eutrophication.
(c) Carya illinoensis.
(d) Amylase.

5. Where does the author describe going to an agate beach with her daughter Linden in "The Consolation of Water Lilies"?
(a) Cape May.
(b) Patrick's Point.
(c) Cape Cod.
(d) Marsha's Vineyard.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 does the true name Tahawus mean among the Potawatomi people?

4. What direction does a doorway always face in indigenous homes, according to the author in "Sitting in a Circle"?

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

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