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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who among the creatures dove first into the watery depths to seek out mud, according to the author in "Skywoman Falling"?
(a) Heron.
(b) Seal.
(c) Beaver.
(d) Loon.

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

3. What is said to be the leader of the birds in the Onondaga address in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?
(a) The chickadee.
(b) The hawk.
(c) The eagle.
(d) The raven.

4. What were the birch bark boxes that the author's ancestors carried sugar made from sap in called?
(a) Ode'mini-giizis.
(b) Puhpowee.
(c) Makaks.
(d) Wiingaashk.

5. Who painted Moment in Flight?
(a) Lewis Hyde.
(b) Thomas Berry.
(c) John Singer Sargent.
(d) Bruce King.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the address called that the children recite at the Onondaga school described by the author in "Allegiance to Gratitude"?

2. According to the author in "Skywoman Falling," sweetgrass is one of how many sacred plants of her people?

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 "A gift creates" in "The Gift of Strawberries" (38)?

5. From where were the author's ancestors first removed from their land, according to the narrative in "The Council of Pecans"?

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