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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 author's people's word for cedar?
(a) Puhpowee.
(b) Kizhig.
(c) Zhawanong.
(d) Makaks.

2. 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.

3. What were the birch bark boxes that the author's ancestors carried sugar made from sap in called?
(a) Wiingaashk.
(b) Makaks.
(c) Ode'mini-giizis.
(d) Puhpowee.

4. What term refers to accretions of calcium carbonate, or "tumorous rocks" (374)?
(a) Oncolites.
(b) Amylase.
(c) Rhizoibum.
(d) Circumnutation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What American elm does the author describe having been named the champion for its species in "Asters and Goldenrod"?

2. "Hydrodictyon" is said to be Latin for what, in "A Mother's Work"?

3. What grew from the heart of Skywoman's daughter, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?

4. After how many years does the author say her pond is now nearly swimmable in "A Mother's Work"?

5. What does the true name Tahawus mean among the Potawatomi people?

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