The Botany of Desire Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Botany of Desire Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pollan asserts that Jews and Christians discouraged devotion to flowers because it was a threat to _______.
(a) Polytheism.
(b) Tropism.
(c) Deism.
(d) Monotheism.

2. The early colonists to America in addition to bringing grafts also brought apple seeds to plant called ______.
(a) Spots.
(b) Cores.
(c) Pippins.
(d) Merrys.

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

4. In an attempt to look like decaying meat, a ______ plant has red and white striated coloring and a rancid smell.
(a) Orchid.
(b) Pitcher.
(c) Catcher.
(d) Fly trap.

5. Appleseed was able to compete with other apple cultivar sales because his trees were ______.
(a) Easily accessible.
(b) Cheap.
(c) Low quality.
(d) High quality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapman is known to have floated one hundred miles down the Allegheny river on _______, fast asleep.

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

3. Petals curving inward to hide its sexual organs, the tulip is ______ among flowers, and somewhat aloof.

4. The Greeks believed that true beauty was the offspring of form and ecstasy personified in ______ and Apollo.

5. The book states that the devotion to flowers had remnants of _____ nature worship that threatened Judeo-Christian faiths.

(see the answer key)

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