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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _______ is the tulip grower's term for the phenomenon that causes certain flowers in a field to revert to the form and color of their parent.
(a) Thievery.
(b) Tropism.
(c) Metamorphosis.
(d) Telekinesis.

2. ______ orchard has become a kind of museum for several different apple species dedicated to maintaining the diversity.
(a) Ohio.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Mansfied.
(d) Indiana.

3. Chinese poets likened the blossoms of the peony to a ______.
(a) Man's sexual organs.
(b) Woman's sexual organs.
(c) Elephant's sexual organs.
(d) Bee's sexual organs.

4. Factors restricting the growth of marijuana that indoor gardeners were able to control include the following except _______.
(a) Heat.
(b) Light.
(c) Disease.
(d) Nutrients.

5. Pollan suggests that on a biochemical level, psychoactive plants affect the brain much the way that the following activities except ______ affect it.
(a) Meditation.
(b) Fasting.
(c) Cold showers.
(d) Exercise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Appleseed had originally come west from the state of _____ when he was 23 years old.

2. The _____ was linked to the corruption of the Catholic church, while the apple was linked with wholesome Protestantism.

3. Johnny Appleseed was known to use a _________ in order to transport his seeds across the water.

4. The Greeks believed that true beauty was the offspring of form and ecstasy personified in ______ and Apollo.

5. Peruvian legend has it that _____ are associated with the discovery of quinine through eating the bark of the cinchona tree.

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