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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who knew a thing or two about natural history, called the apple, _______
(a) The best treat.
(b) A feeling of home.
(c) The Canadian fruit.
(d) The American fruit.

2. Apple trees are able to reproduce _______ which helps to facilitate their ability to be grafted to a root stock.
(a) Sexually.
(b) Daily.
(c) Asexually.
(d) Periodically.

3. In the book, Johnny Appleseed was called a benign _________ of the American Fronteir.
(a) Saint Phillip.
(b) Saint Thomas.
(c) Saint Francis.
(d) Saint Augustine.

4. The Native Americans that knew Chapman considered him to be a brilliant woodsman and ______.
(a) Medicine man.
(b) Guide.
(c) Hunter.
(d) Farmer.

5. Johnny Appleseed was known for introducing the apple to the following states except _____.
(a) Indiana.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Illinois.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, there are ______ plants that have shaped human existence at least as much as human's have affected these plants.

2. The domestic apple is thought to have derived from a species that originally came from the country ______.

3. The plants that have contributed to the shaping of human existence include all of the following except _______.

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

5. Almost all apples grown for eating are cultivars, meaning that they are ______.

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