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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ______, which contains a much higher amount of alcohol than hard cider, could be obtained through freezing.
(a) Vodka.
(b) Rum.
(c) Brandy.
(d) Applejack.

2. Johnny Appleseed was opposed to using _____ in order to grow trees and preferred planting seeds.
(a) Leaves.
(b) Genetic engineering.
(c) Cuttings.
(d) Roots.

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

4. Michael Pollen compares Chapman to the Greek mythological figures _______.
(a) Satyrs.
(b) Nymphs.
(c) Dryads.
(d) Centaurs.

5. Pollan asserts that due to the use of apple grafts from one generation to the next, the apple population has been made____.
(a) More wholesome.
(b) More nutritious.
(c) Strong.
(d) Weak.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______ orchard has become a kind of museum for several different apple species dedicated to maintaining the diversity.

2. The apple is presented in this book as strongly appealing to humanity's desire for _______.

3. In the book, Johnny Appleseed was called a benign _________ of the American Fronteir.

4. Johnny Appleseed was famous or infamous for wearing a _______ around wherever he went.

5. Appleseed used most of his crops in order to make ______, which led him to be thought of as an 'American Dionysus.'

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