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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Oren Lyons.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Thomas Berry.

2. In the teachings of the Onondaga people, leadership is rooted not in power and authority but in what?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Instinct and trust.
(c) Submission and meekness.
(d) Service and wisdom.

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

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

5. What refers to "the natural process of nutrient enrichment that comes with age," and what happened to the author's pond in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Carya illinoensis.
(b) Solidago canadensis.
(c) Amylase.
(d) Eutrophication.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted Moment in Flight?

2. 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)?

3. What American elm does the author describe having been named the champion for its species in "Asters and Goldenrod"?

4. What is said to be the leader of the birds in the Onondaga address in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?

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

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