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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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)?
(a) The Coushatta Gathering of Nations.
(b) The Potawatomi Gathering of Nations.
(c) The Hunting Moon Pow Wow.
(d) The Morongo Thunder and Lightning Pow Wow.

5. The author states in "Skywoman Falling," "The Skywoman story, shared by the original peoples throughout the Great Lakes, is a constant star in the constellation of teachings we call" what (16)?
(a) "The Original Instructions."
(b) "The Great Instructions."
(c) "The Old Testament."
(d) "The Words of God."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Hazel's husband?

2. 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"?

3. 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)?

4. What is the animate form of "to be," in the author's people's language?

5. Along what river does the author describe her grandfather collecting pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?

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