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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Hydrodictyon" is said to be Latin for what, in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) The burning bush.
(b) The single eye.
(c) The reformer.
(d) The water net.

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

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

4. In what small village is Evon Peter a Chief in northeastern Alaska?
(a) Sitka.
(b) Homer.
(c) Arctic Village.
(d) Wasilla.

5. What is the animate form of "to be," in the author's people's language?
(a) Wiingaashk.
(b) Yawe.
(c) Puhpowee.
(d) Ode'mini-giizis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say "A gift creates" in "The Gift of Strawberries" (38)?

2. What is the scientific name for goldenrod?

3. What is described in maple trees as "the enzyme responsible for cleaving large molecules of starch stored in the roots into small molecules of sugar" (85)?

4. What gathering in Oklahoma does the author describe as "an antidote to the divide-and-conquer strategy that was used to separate our people from each other and from our homelands" (31)?

5. What were the names of Hazel's children, according to the narrator in "Witch Hazel"?

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