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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What American elm does the author describe having been named the champion for its species in "Asters and Goldenrod"?
(a) The Parliament Hill Elm.
(b) The Glencorradale Elm.
(c) The Louis Vieux Elm.
(d) The Wethersfield Elm.

2. What kind of bird's nest did the author find in the willows around her pond in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Sparrow.
(b) Barn swallow.
(c) Yellow warbler.
(d) Raven.

3. Where does the author describe going to an agate beach with her daughter Linden in "The Consolation of Water Lilies"?
(a) Patrick's Point.
(b) Cape Cod.
(c) Cape May.
(d) Marsha's Vineyard.

4. 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) Amylase.
(b) Carya illinoensis.
(c) Eutrophication.
(d) Solidago canadensis.

5. What does the true name Tahawus mean among the Potawatomi people?
(a) Flaming lava.
(b) Cloud Splitter.
(c) Gentle slope.
(d) Large eruption.

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. Where did the author grow up?

3. The narrator of "Witch Hazel" says that she first met Hazel Barnett when she was walking the fields where?

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

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