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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Along what river does the author describe her grandfather collecting pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) The Niagara River.
(b) The Canadian River.
(c) The Ottawa River.
(d) The Arkansas River.

2. Who is described as the late bloomer of the family in "The Three Sisters"?
(a) Beans.
(b) Onions.
(c) Corn.
(d) Squash.

3. What is the Hiawatha wampum belt the symbol of?
(a) The Yurok Confederacy.
(b) The Odawa Confederacy.
(c) The Haudenosunee Confederacy.
(d) The Winnemem-Wintu Confederacy.

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

5. The narrator of "Witch Hazel" says that she first met Hazel Barnett when she was walking the fields where?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Nevada.
(c) Washington.
(d) Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what grade was the author's daughter when she stopped standing for the Pledge of Allegiance?

2. What is the Anishinaabe word for maple?

3. What kind of bird's nest did the author find in the willows around her pond in "A Mother's Work"?

4. Who is the Onondaga Faithkeeper who told the author, "Of course you should write about it. It’s supposed to be shared, otherwise how can it work? We’ve been waiting five hundred years for people to listen. If they’d understood the Thanksgiving then, we wouldn’t be in this mess" (142)?

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

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