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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dependence on the potato had made the ________ vulnerable to the perils of the economy as well as to those of nature.
(a) Irish.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Germans.
(d) English.

2. 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.
(a) Androgynous.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Pathetic.

3. One way to look at ___________ engineering is to think that it allows humans to insert their intelligence into a crop.
(a) Farmer.
(b) Genetic.
(c) Weather.
(d) Equipment.

4. Appleseed used most of his crops in order to make ______, which led him to be thought of as an 'American Dionysus.'
(a) Apple vodka.
(b) Fermented cider.
(c) Apple pie.
(d) Apple crisp.

5. The book states that before the evolution of flowers, life existed in a much _______ world.
(a) Faster.
(b) More complicated.
(c) Simpler.
(d) More beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to reduce time and energy spent on growing male sinsemilla plants which are useless, growers started ______.

2. Teaching men how to ferment the juice of the grape, ______ had brought civilization the gift of wine.

3. American hippies sometimes traveled the _______ in Afghanistan and returned with seeds of Cannabis Indica.

4. The book suggests that Herbert's view of tulipmania is a parable of utopianism, specifically _______.

5. Some of the ways children have been known to seek this altered state of consciousness include all of the following except______.

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