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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book states that certain flowers are reminiscent of Greek Gods. The rose and the peony are stated to be flowers of ______.
(a) Apollo.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Venus.

2. The fact that apple seeds do not produce a similar apple as the tree they came from is scientifically called ______.
(a) Protozygosity.
(b) Homozygosity.
(c) Lumozygosity.
(d) Heterozygosity.

3. Chapman practiced the faith of ______ and was known to launch into sermons when visiting.
(a) Pessimism.
(b) Swedenborgism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Catholocism.

4. ______ is the name given to the state-of-the-art growing regimen that could yield three pounds of sinsemilla in two months' time.
(a) Ocean of Green.
(b) Sea of Green.
(c) Pool of Green.
(d) Lake of Green.

5. The concept of the apple being a healthy and wholesome fruit was dreamed up to fight the negative image from ______.
(a) The Women's Christian Abstinence Union.
(b) The Women's Christian Union.
(c) The Women's Christian Plant Union.
(d) The Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Short Answer Questions

1. The number of leaves that are only a tulip are typically _______. With the "turban" top, this gives them the suggesting of a human body.

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

3. According to the book, _____ are the only people on Earth who do not have a practice of using psychoactive plants to change consciousness.

4. Pollan asserts that Jews and Christians discouraged devotion to flowers because it was a threat to _______.

5. The book compares tulips in fields to ______ or lipsticks, merely flashes of bright color on the horizon.

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