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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the author's people means "the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight" (65)?
(a) Wiingaashk.
(b) Yawe.
(c) Ode'mini-giizis.
(d) Puhpowee.

2. What term refers to fields with many species of plants?
(a) Polycultures.
(b) Omnicultures.
(c) Agricultures.
(d) Bicultures.

3. In what type of environment do black ash trees thrive?
(a) Mountain forests.
(b) Desert plains.
(c) High desert sierras.
(d) Swamps.

4. What were the names of Hazel's children, according to the narrator in "Witch Hazel"?
(a) James and Sally.
(b) Sam and Janie.
(c) Sarah and John.
(d) Emily and Peter.

5. What grew from Skywoman's daughter's head when she was buried in the earth, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?
(a) Sweetgrass.
(b) Wild strawberries.
(c) Onions.
(d) Tobacco.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the shared currency of Maple Nation, according to the author in "Maple Nation: A Citizenship Guide"?

3. In the author's metaphor for the Three Sisters as an emerging relationship between Western science and indigenous knowledge, the bean signifies what?

4. Scientists have discovered an enzyme in the saliva of what animal that stimulates grass growth?

5. In the teachings of the Onondaga people, leadership is rooted not in power and authority but in what?

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