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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where were the author's ancestors first removed from their land, according to the narrative in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) Caifornia.
(b) Oregon.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Wisconsin.

2. What does the author say she should call it when writers go walking the forests and fields looking for plants in "Asters and Goldenrod"?
(a) A metaphoray.
(b) An arboreal understanding.
(c) A musing.
(d) An arboreal gathering.

3. What color bedroom was among the author's daughters' list of demands for a new home in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Pink.
(d) Purple.

4. What kind of food did the author's pet ducks take to in the winter, according to her narrative in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Chicken food.
(b) Cat food.
(c) Dog food.
(d) Pig food.

5. 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)?
(a) Lewis Hyde.
(b) Bruce King.
(c) Thomas Berry.
(d) Oren Lyons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book Grandmothers of the Light?

2. Where does the author describe going to an agate beach with her daughter Linden in "The Consolation of Water Lilies"?

3. In what small village is Evon Peter a Chief in northeastern Alaska?

4. What does the author describe the frest, raw pole bean as tasting like in "Epiphany in the Beans"?

5. What is Lionel's profession, as detailed in "The Honorable Harvest"?

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