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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ______ present in species such as the wild parsnip cause the animals that eat it to burn in the sun.
(a) Photosynthesizers.
(b) Photosensitizers.
(c) Anthocyanins.
(d) Flavenoids.

2. Certain drugs, Pollan states, will cause objects around us to change until they appear as the _________ versions of themselves.
(a) Enjoyable.
(b) Opposite.
(c) Ideal.
(d) Glowing.

3. According to the book, the tulip is said to have the consciousness of _______, evoking clarity and order.
(a) Zeus.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Apollog.
(d) Venus.

4. 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 __________.
(a) Imagination.
(b) Workforce.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Plant world.

5. Chapman is known to have floated one hundred miles down the Allegheny river on _______, fast asleep.
(a) A raft.
(b) A block of ice.
(c) A canoe.
(d) A log.

Short Answer Questions

1. Apples were the only avenue early settlers had for obtaining ______, which the Native Americans obtained from Maples.

2. One winter, Appleseed set up a house in a _______ outside Defiance, Ohio where he operated a pair of nurseries.

3. The book states that one culture's cure all could be another culture's 'root of all evil' also known as ________.

4. _______ is the name of the black version of the tulip and is as close to black as a flower gets.

5. Part of the Americanization of the apple had to do with the character of Johnny Appleseed whose real name was ______.

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