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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the scientific name for goldenrod?
(a) Hierochloe odorata.
(b) Juglandaceae.
(c) Carya illinoensis.
(d) Solidago canadensis.

2. What does the author say the word for sweetgrass is in her people's language in the Preface?
(a) Yawe.
(b) Ode'mini-giizis.
(c) Puhpowee.
(d) Wiingaashk.

3. What does the true name Tahawus mean among the Potawatomi people?
(a) Gentle slope.
(b) Cloud Splitter.
(c) Large eruption.
(d) Flaming lava.

4. What is the scientific name for the pecan hickory tree?
(a) Pharmacopoeia.
(b) Hierochloe odorata.
(c) Mycorrhizae.
(d) Carya illinoensis.

5. What is the animate form of "to be," in the author's people's language?
(a) Ode'mini-giizis.
(b) Yawe.
(c) Wiingaashk.
(d) Puhpowee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say "A gift creates" in "The Gift of Strawberries" (38)?

2. What is sweetgrass's favored habitat?

3. How many times does the author say her ancestors were "removed" in the span of a single generation in "The Council of Pecans" (21)?

4. 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)?

5. What gathering in Oklahoma does the author describe as "an antidote to the divide-and-conquer strategy that was used to separate our people from each other and from our homelands" (31)?

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