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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the child that Laurie gave birth to while doing her graduate research project on sweetgrass?
(a) Lilith.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Celia.

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

3. What do engineers mix leachate with in order to neutralize its ph value?
(a) Calcium chloride.
(b) Rhizoibum.
(c) Nuphar lutea.
(d) Hydrochloric acid.

4. What is the name the author's people use to refer to common plantain plants?
(a) White Man's Basket.
(b) White Man's Disease.
(c) White Man's Footstep.
(d) White Man's Problem.

5. Who is the Onondaga Faithkeeper who told the author, "Of course you should write about it. It’s supposed to be shared, otherwise how can it work? We’ve been waiting five hundred years for people to listen. If they’d understood the Thanksgiving then, we wouldn’t be in this mess" (142)?
(a) Lewis Hyde.
(b) Oren Lyons.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Thomas Berry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who among the creatures dove first into the watery depths to seek out mud, according to the author in "Skywoman Falling"?

2. Who was the Cherokee writer that pressed a corn leaf pouch into the author's hand years ago, according to the narrative in "The Three Sisters"?

3. What color bedroom was among the author's daughters' list of demands for a new home in "A Mother's Work"?

4. 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"?

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

(see the answer key)

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