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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 scientific name for the white spruce tree?
(a) Hierochloe odorata.
(b) Picea Glauca.
(c) Juglandaceae.
(d) Zhawanong.

2. How many Superfund sites line the shore of Onondaga Lake?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

3. What is the Windigo's heart made of, according to the author in "Windigo Footprints"?
(a) Water.
(b) Stone.
(c) Ice.
(d) Air.

4. The author describes a lichen in "Umbilicaria: The Belly Button of the World" as being not one being but two. What are these beings?
(a) A fungus and an alga.
(b) A plant and an animal.
(c) A fungus and a plant.
(d) A plant and an alga.

5. According to the author in "Skywoman Falling," sweetgrass is one of how many sacred plants of her people?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Onondaga leader refused to hear the Peacemaker's message, according to the author's narrative in "The Sacred and the Superfund"?

2. What does the author describe the granite as in the Adirondack landscape in "Umbilicaria: The Belly Button of the World"?

3. 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)?

4. What kind of bird's nest did the author find in the willows around her pond in "A Mother's Work"?

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

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