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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the three seeds in the corn leaf pouch that were given to the author in "The Three Sisters"?
(a) Beans, squash, and onions.
(b) Tobacco, chives, and beans.
(c) Corn, beans, and squash.
(d) Sweetgrass, potatoes, and corn.

2. What kind of food did the author's pet ducks take to in the winter, according to her narrative in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Dog food.
(b) Pig food.
(c) Chicken food.
(d) Cat food.

3. "Hydrodictyon" is said to be Latin for what, in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) The single eye.
(b) The water net.
(c) The burning bush.
(d) The reformer.

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

5. Who is the author's graduate student that assisted her in investigating the decline of black ash trees in New York, according to the narrative in "Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket"?
(a) Oren Lyons.
(b) Tom Touchet.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Thomas Berry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote in an 1890 treatise that “the colors diametrically opposed to each other . . . are those which reciprocally evoke each other in the eye" (61)?

2. For how long does the author say the commodity economy has been here on Turtle Island in "The Gift of Strawberries"?

3. What does the author say she should call it when writers go walking the forests and fields looking for plants in "Asters and Goldenrod"?

4. What is said to be a "radical proposition" in a consumer society in "Allegiance to Gratitude" (136)?

5. What is the scientific family that comprises butternuts, black walnuts, hickories, and pecans?

(see the answer key)

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