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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Until the mid-1970s, most of the marijuana in America was grown in _______ and was often sprayed with a pesticide paraquat.
(a) America.
(b) Canada.
(c) Peru.
(d) Mexico.

2. What is the name of the company which makes the genetically modified potato called "NewLeaf"?
(a) Monsanto.
(b) Tyson.
(c) Conagra.
(d) Whole Foods.

3. Flowers have been given the ability to attract other species using a variety of senses except ______.
(a) Tactile.
(b) Visual.
(c) Olfactory.
(d) Auditory.

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

5. The book states that the devotion to flowers had remnants of _____ nature worship that threatened Judeo-Christian faiths.
(a) Pagan.
(b) Lutheran.
(c) Swedenborgian.
(d) Islamic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapman was credited for introducing 'Johnny weed' or ________, to the state of Ohio.

2. According to the book, drugs that alter the user's perception of time and space are taboo because they disrupt the _______.

3. The book states that certain flowers are reminiscent of Greek Gods. The rose and the peony are stated to be flowers of ______.

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

5. Genetic ____________ is the catchall term used to describe the various unexpected effects that misplaced or unregulated foreign genes can have in an environment.

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