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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is sweetgrass's favored habitat?
(a) Sunny, well-watered meadows.
(b) Craggy, rocky mountains with low sunshine.
(c) Lava rock beds and high desert plains.
(d) Dry, shady forests.

2. What is the "boom and bust cycle" of nut trees called, according to the author in "The Council of Pecans" (23)?
(a) Forage fruiting.
(b) Mass fruiting.
(c) Post fruiting.
(d) Mast fruiting.

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)?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.

4. In what year does the author describe her grandfather gathering pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1818.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1902.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the true name Tahawus mean among the Potawatomi people?

2. Who is described in "Maple Sugar Moon" as "the Anishinaabe Original Man" (79)?

3. What was Sha-note renamed?

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 were the names of Skywoman's daughter's twins, whom she gave birth to before dying, according to the author in "The Gift of Strawberries"?

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