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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 scientific name for the yellow water-lily?
(a) Amylase.
(b) Carya illinoensis.
(c) Nuphar lutea.
(d) Solidago canadensis.

2. On how many acres did the home sit that the author fell in love with in upstate New York in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

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

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

5. What does appreciation beget, according to the author in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?
(a) Abundance.
(b) Obsequience.
(c) Order.
(d) Gratitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Sha-note renamed?

2. What is the scientific family that comprises butternuts, black walnuts, hickories, and pecans?

3. 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)?

4. What does the author say the word for sweetgrass is in her people's language in the Preface?

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"?

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