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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 family that comprises butternuts, black walnuts, hickories, and pecans?
(a) Carya illinoensis.
(b) Hierochloe odorata.
(c) Pharmacopoeia.
(d) Juglandaceae.

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

3. Who is described in "Maple Sugar Moon" as "the Anishinaabe Original Man" (79)?
(a) Yawe.
(b) Nanabozho.
(c) Puhpowee.
(d) Wiingaashk.

4. What color are the flowers of the witch hazel plant?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Blue.

5. Tahawus is the Algonquin name for what mountain, according to the author in "An Offering"?
(a) Mount Shasta.
(b) Mount Marcy.
(c) Mount Brady.
(d) Mount Rainier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as "our oldest Grandmother" in the Onondaga address?

2. What is the message taught by the Pecan Council in "The Council of Pecans"?

3. What is said to be a "radical proposition" in a consumer society in "Allegiance to Gratitude" (136)?

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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