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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What naturalist wrote, "There can be no purpose more inspiring than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us" (403)?
(a) Tom Touchet.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) E. O. Wilson.
(d) Oren Lyons.

2. In what small village is Evon Peter a Chief in northeastern Alaska?
(a) Homer.
(b) Sitka.
(c) Wasilla.
(d) Arctic Village.

3. What song did the author's pre-med students begin singing as they departed camp in "The Sound of Silverbells"?
(a) America the Beautiful.
(b) Awiakta.
(c) Amazing Grace.
(d) Hallelujah.

4. What writer stated that “a Windigo was a human whose selfishness has overpowered their self-control to the point that satisfaction is no longer possible" (363)?
(a) Lewis Hyde.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Steve Pitt.

5. Beginning in what year did the U.S. Forest Service and partner organizations led by Oregon State University initiate a restoration project for the estuary at the Salmon River in Oregon?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1976.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the scientific name of the common plantain?

3. In what year does the author describe her grandfather gathering pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?

4. What gathering in Oklahoma does the author describe as "an antidote to the divide-and-conquer strategy that was used to separate our people from each other and from our homelands" (31)?

5. Who wrote the book Grandmothers of the Light?

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