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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the child that Laurie gave birth to while doing her graduate research project on sweetgrass?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Lilith.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Celia.

2. Who was the Cherokee writer that pressed a corn leaf pouch into the author's hand years ago, according to the narrative in "The Three Sisters"?
(a) Paula Gunn Allen.
(b) Lewis Hyde.
(c) Awiakta.
(d) Thomas Berry.

3. What word from the Preface refers to a book containing a list of medicinal drugs with their effects and directions for use?
(a) Pharmacopoeia.
(b) Juglandaceae.
(c) Hierochloe odorata.
(d) Solidago canadensis.

4. What is the name of the process in a bean shoot in which the vine inscribes a circle in the air?
(a) Circumnutation.
(b) Eutrophication.
(c) Nuphar lutea.
(d) Amylase.

5. What is Lionel's profession, as detailed in "The Honorable Harvest"?
(a) He is a dentist.
(b) He is a trapper.
(c) He is a miner.
(d) He is a farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Along what river does the author describe her grandfather collecting pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?

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

3. Who was the great teacher of Anishinaabe lore that over-fished a lake, according to the story related by the author in "The Honorable Harvest"?

4. What was Sha-note renamed?

5. Who was Hazel's husband?

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