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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color bedroom was among the author's daughters' list of demands for a new home in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Pink.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Purple.

2. What kind of food did the author's pet ducks take to in the winter, according to her narrative in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Cat food.
(b) Pig food.
(c) Chicken food.
(d) Dog food.

3. In the teachings of the Onondaga people, leadership is rooted not in power and authority but in what?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Instinct and trust.
(c) Submission and meekness.
(d) Service and wisdom.

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

5. For how long does the author say the commodity economy has been here on Turtle Island in "The Gift of Strawberries"?
(a) 200 years.
(b) 600 years.
(c) 400 years.
(d) 100 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Along what river does the author describe her grandfather collecting pecans in "The Council of Pecans"?

3. What is the device called that one hammers into a Maple tree in order to tap it?

4. Who stated that “objects . . . will remain plentiful because they are treated as gifts" (43)?

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

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