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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "Sha-note" mean in the author's people's language (21)?
(a) River in a gorge.
(b) Trees falling from fire.
(c) Wind blowing through.
(d) Cliff overhanging the ocean.

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

3. What grew from the heart of Skywoman's daughter, according to the author in "Epiphany in the Beans"?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Sweetgrass.
(c) Strawberries.
(d) Cedar trees.

4. What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen gas?
(a) 56%.
(b) 89%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 78%.

5. What did Laurie's finding show happened with harvested sweetgrass in her graduate thesis?
(a) Harvesting by snapping leaves harms production.
(b) Harvesting by root-pulling destroys sweetgrass populations.
(c) Harvested sweetgrass thrives well.
(d) Harvested sweetgrass does not flourish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author grow up?

2. Who is described as "our oldest Grandmother" in the Onondaga address?

3. On how many acres did the home sit that the author fell in love with in upstate New York in "A Mother's Work"?

4. What is described in maple trees as "the enzyme responsible for cleaving large molecules of starch stored in the roots into small molecules of sugar" (85)?

5. Who is the elder described that spoke of only carrying one bullet with him when he went deer hunting in "The Honorable Harvest"?

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