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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The tulip is considered by the author to be the most ______ of flowers, referring especially to the way the flower forces itself out of the ground.
(a) Pathetic.
(b) Androgynous.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Masculine.

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

3. The reasons why potatoes did not become popular in Europe at first was because they were thought to cause _________ and immorality.
(a) Leprosy.
(b) Measles.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Malaria.

4. According to the book, _____ are the only people on Earth who do not have a practice of using psychoactive plants to change consciousness.
(a) Africans.
(b) Australians.
(c) Eskimos.
(d) Icelandic people.

5. Chapman was credited for introducing 'Johnny weed' or ________, to the state of Ohio.
(a) Mayweed.
(b) Wormwood.
(c) Stinking fennel.
(d) Sweet fennel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since Appleseed raised his trees from seed, most of the fruit was not suitable for _______.

2. Pollan asserts that due to the use of apple grafts from one generation to the next, the apple population has been made____.

3. ______ is the unit of money used in Holland. After 1635, the price of a bulb of Switzers went from 60 to 1500.

4. Some of the farmers who grow potatoes are happy with Monsanto since this means they can skip a few _________, which saves them money.

5. Farmers who plant Bt crops must leave a certain portion of their land for non-Bt crops to provide a ________ for the bugs.

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