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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What grew from Skywoman's daughter's belly after she was buried in the earth?
(a) Corn.
(b) Onions.
(c) Beans.
(d) Squash.

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

4. Who taught Nanabozho to make an ax, according to the narrative in "In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?
(a) Beaver.
(b) Heron.
(c) Bear.
(d) Ox.

5. What does the author describe the granite as in the Adirondack landscape in "Umbilicaria: The Belly Button of the World"?
(a) Juglandaceae.
(b) Rhizoibum.
(c) Mycorrhizae.
(d) Anorthosite.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is sweetgrass's favored habitat?

2. 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?

3. What is the author's people's word for cedar?

4. Where did the author live while in graduate school?

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

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