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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Pollan not allowed to do with the NewLeaf potatoes at the end of the year, according to the law?
(a) Hide them.
(b) Replant them.
(c) Sell them.
(d) Eat them.

2. Pollan refers to the _____ as the gothic femme fatale in the masculine world of tulips.
(a) Semper Augustus.
(b) Queen of Night.
(c) Switsers.
(d) Black Dhalia.

3. The book states that Johnny Appleseed died in 1845 in _______ Indiana.
(a) Brilliant.
(b) Gary.
(c) Ft. Wayne.
(d) Defiance.

4. Since Appleseed raised his trees from seed, most of the fruit was not suitable for _______.
(a) Eating.
(b) Selling.
(c) Making cider.
(d) Composting.

5. The number of leaves that are only a tulip are typically _______. With the "turban" top, this gives them the suggesting of a human body.
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. The tulip is considered by the author to be the most ______ of flowers, referring especially to the way the flower forces itself out of the ground.

2. Chapman was known to go _______ in all kinds of weather and took it as a matter of pride in his toughness.

3. Genetic ____________ is the catchall term used to describe the various unexpected effects that misplaced or unregulated foreign genes can have in an environment.

4. Pollan asserts that Jews and Christians discouraged devotion to flowers because it was a threat to _______.

5. The book states that the presence of flowers is a reliable predictor of future _____ and therefore was important to humans in the past.

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