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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the role of water, according to the beliefs of the Onondaga people?
(a) Life sustainer.
(b) Peace bringer.
(c) Knowledge bringer.
(d) Healer.

2. What is the scientific name for sweetgrass?
(a) Pharmacopoeia.
(b) Hierochloe odorata.
(c) Solidago canadensis.
(d) Mycorrhizae.

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

4. In the author's metaphor for the Three Sisters as an emerging relationship between Western science and indigenous knowledge, the corn signifies what?
(a) Traditional ecological knowledge.
(b) Science.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Community.

5. What company was the successor to Allied Chemical?
(a) Johnson & Johnson.
(b) Pepsi Cola.
(c) Honeywell Incorporated.
(d) Mills, Washington, and Willis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Along what river does the author describe her grandfather collecting pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?

2. 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)?

3. On how many acres did the home sit that the author fell in love with in upstate New York in "A Mother's Work"?

4. How many Superfund sites line the shore of Onondaga Lake?

5. The author states in "Epiphany in the Beans," "In a garden, food arises from" what (151)?

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