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

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) Tropism.
(b) Metamorphosis.
(c) Telekinesis.
(d) Thievery.

2. Pollan asserts that Jews and Christians discouraged devotion to flowers because it was a threat to _______.
(a) Deism.
(b) Polytheism.
(c) Tropism.
(d) Monotheism.

3. Dependence on the potato had made the ________ vulnerable to the perils of the economy as well as to those of nature.
(a) Spanish.
(b) Germans.
(c) English.
(d) Irish.

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

5. When Pollan opened up the package to grow the NewLeaf potatoes, the card stated that he was now ________ to grow the potatoes.
(a) Authorized.
(b) Able.
(c) Licensed.
(d) Legalized.

Short Answer Questions

1. Andrew Weil has referred to marijuana as an _____________ when taking account of the phenomenon.

2. The book suggests that Herbert's view of tulipmania is a parable of utopianism, specifically _______.

3. Pollan says that he would call the images of nature and of growing to be the Agricultural ___________, if he did not think it sounded like too much of an oxymoron.

4. Into what kind of plant have plant breeders inserted a gene from a firefly, making the plants glow, although for no apparent reason, according to Pollan?

5. The process through which humans and plants have shaped each other over the years is known as _______.

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