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

2. What refers to "the natural process of nutrient enrichment that comes with age," and what happened to the author's pond in "A Mother's Work"?
(a) Solidago canadensis.
(b) Amylase.
(c) Carya illinoensis.
(d) Eutrophication.

3. What ecotheologian wrote, "We must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects" (74)?
(a) Thomas Berry.
(b) Bruce King.
(c) Johann Goethe.
(d) Lewis Hyde.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of bird's nest did the author find in the willows around her pond in "A Mother's Work"?

2. What was Sha-note renamed?

3. From whose perspective is "Witch Hazel" narrated?

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

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