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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) Solidago canadensis.
(b) Amylase.
(c) Carya illinoensis.
(d) Nuphar lutea.

2. What is the message taught by the Pecan Council in "The Council of Pecans"?
(a) War is sometimes necessary.
(b) There is strength in unity.
(c) There is strength in solitude.
(d) The Windigo is all-powerful.

3. What is the scientific name for goldenrod?
(a) Solidago canadensis.
(b) Juglandaceae.
(c) Hierochloe odorata.
(d) Carya illinoensis.

4. What is the device called that one hammers into a Maple tree in order to tap it?
(a) Spile.
(b) Spike.
(c) Sloke.
(d) Stake.

5. 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)?
(a) Johann Goethe.
(b) Lewis Hyde.
(c) Bruce King.
(d) Jeh Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author do for Hazel as a gift at Christmas in "Witch Hazel"?

2. What are the light-absorbing pigments in the photosensors in Maple buds called?

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 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"?

5. What color bedroom was among the author's daughters' list of demands for a new home in "A Mother's Work"?

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