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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 the name of the author's youngest daughter?
(a) Ashley.
(b) Linden.
(c) Flint.
(d) Larkin.

2. Who was Hazel's husband?
(a) Rowley.
(b) Andrew.
(c) Robert.
(d) James.

3. What does the author describe in "The Council of Pecans" as "fungal strands that inhabit tree roots" (30)?
(a) Carya illinoensis.
(b) Pharmacopoeia.
(c) Mycorrhizae.
(d) Juglandaceae.

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

5. Who is described in "Maple Sugar Moon" as "the Anishinaabe Original Man" (79)?
(a) Nanabozho.
(b) Yawe.
(c) Puhpowee.
(d) Wiingaashk.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Who among the creatures dove first into the watery depths to seek out mud, according to the author in "Skywoman Falling"?

3. What ecotheologian wrote, "We must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects" (74)?

4. What does the author say she should call it when writers go walking the forests and fields looking for plants in "Asters and Goldenrod"?

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

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