Braiding Sweetgrass Test | Final Test - Medium

Robin Wall Kimmerer
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the scientific name of the black ash tree?
(a) Fraxinus nigra.
(b) Carya illinoensis.
(c) Nuphar lutea.
(d) Solidago canadensis.

3. 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) 1990.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1976.

4. What is the shared currency of Maple Nation, according to the author in "Maple Nation: A Citizenship Guide"?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Nitrogen.
(c) Carbon.
(d) Gold.

5. What word do the author's people use to mean East?
(a) Makaks.
(b) Wiingaashk.
(c) Wabunong.
(d) Nanabozho.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Anishinaabe word for maple?

2. What word refers to the sacred tobacco among the author's people?

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

4. What did the Mohawk call themselves, meaning "People of the Flint" (304)?

5. What did Laurie's finding show happened with harvested sweetgrass in her graduate thesis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it important for native peoples to ask for permission when harvesting or hunting? How do they do so?

2. What lessons did Nanabozho learn from the animals, according to the narrative in “In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

3. Who did Nanabozho meet when he traveled to the West?

4. What does the author remark about White Man's Footstep in “In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

5. What was Nanabozho's first work, as described in “In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

6. How does the author describe the process of harvesting sweetgrass in the opening of Picking Sweetgrass?

7. What does the South represent symbolically to the Anishinaabe people?

8. Under what types of conditions do black ash trees grow?

9. What uses for cattails did the author teach her students in “Sitting in a Circle"?

10. What did the author discover when she attempted to apply reciprocity when shopping for writing supplies in "The Honorable Harvest"?

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