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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the book, there are ______ plants that have shaped human existence at least as much as human's have affected these plants.
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

4. The book states that before flowers there was no connection between the way things looked and ______.
(a) Suvival.
(b) Their function.
(c) Desire.
(d) Reproduction.

5. According to the book, the plants that form flowers and then encased seeds are known as ______.
(a) Angiosperms.
(b) Conifers.
(c) Gymnosperms.
(d) Echinoderms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The book suggests that colors and symmetries are elemental principles of ______.

3. Chinese poets likened the blossoms of the peony to a ______.

4. Apple trees are able to reproduce _______ which helps to facilitate their ability to be grafted to a root stock.

5. Johnny Appleseed raised ______ for sale and subsequent transplantation.

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