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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote the book Grandmothers of the Light?
(a) Paula Gunn Allen.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) Johann Goethe.
(d) Bruce King.

3. What is the message taught by the Pecan Council in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) The Windigo is all-powerful.
(b) War is sometimes necessary.
(c) There is strength in solitude.
(d) There is strength in unity.

4. 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) Puhpowee.
(d) Ode'mini-giizis.

5. What does appreciation beget, according to the author in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Abundance.
(c) Order.
(d) Obsequience.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in "Skywoman Falling," sweetgrass is one of how many sacred plants of her people?

2. Upon what creature's back did the woman spread the mud in "Skywoman Falling"?

3. Who stated that “objects . . . will remain plentiful because they are treated as gifts" (43)?

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

5. What is sweetgrass's favored habitat?

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