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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where was the emerald ash borer introduced?
(a) Newfoundland.
(b) China.
(c) England.
(d) Japan.

2. Who is the elder described that spoke of only carrying one bullet with him when he went deer hunting in "The Honorable Harvest"?
(a) Awiakta.
(b) Lewis.
(c) Bruce.
(d) Oren.

3. How many pounds of mercury are estimated to have been discharged into Onondaga Lake between 1946 and 1970?
(a) 234,000.
(b) 153,000.
(c) 165,000.
(d) 67,000.

4. What does the author describe the frest, raw pole bean as tasting like in "Epiphany in the Beans"?
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) September.
(d) July.

5. What word from the author's people means "the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight" (65)?
(a) Ode'mini-giizis.
(b) Wiingaashk.
(c) Puhpowee.
(d) Yawe.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Solvay Process allowed for the production of what?

2. What is the name of the process in a bean shoot in which the vine inscribes a circle in the air?

3. What is the scientific name for the pecan hickory tree?

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

5. 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?

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