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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Instead of wind and water moving genetic material around, the emerging plants were now enlisting the help of ______.
(a) Animals.
(b) Bacteria.
(c) Viruses.
(d) Mold.

2. The "broken tulip" was eventually found to be caused by ______ which was discovered with the invention of the electron microscope.
(a) A frost.
(b) A mold.
(c) A virus.
(d) A bacterium.

3. Some of the ways children have been known to seek this altered state of consciousness include all of the following except______.
(a) Eating processed sugar.
(b) Spinning until violently dizzy.
(c) Deliberately hyperventilating.
(d) Jumping out of trees.

4. According to the book, cannabis is now America's leading _______ with sinsemilla selling for upwards of $500 an ounce.
(a) Cash crop.
(b) Export.
(c) Import.
(d) Economic problem.

5. Johnny Appleseed is generally acknowledged as having planted _______ of apple seeds across a wide range of orchards.
(a) Thousands.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Tens of thousands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapman planted 'Johnny weed' because he thought that it would prevent the contraction of ______.

2. The book suggests that _______ calls to human desire to alter the textures and contents of our consciousness.

3. The author speculates that in order to transcend the normal day experience, we may need to a single volume of knowledge, which is a natural history of the __________.

4. Appleseed had originally come west from the state of _____ when he was 23 years old.

5. Pollan refers to the _____ as the gothic femme fatale in the masculine world of tulips.

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