The Botany of Desire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Botany of Desire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book, there are ______ plants that have shaped human existence at least as much as human's have affected these plants.
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

2. The arts of _______ are how plants have explored their ingenuity applied to learning and adapting.
(a) Locomotion.
(b) Physical defenses.
(c) Biochemistry.
(d) Tropism.

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

4. According to the book, species tulips in Turkey typically come in ______ and less commonly in white or yellow.
(a) Orange.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Purple.

5. _______ is the name of the black version of the tulip and is as close to black as a flower gets.
(a) Queen of Despair.
(b) Queen of Darkness.
(c) Queen of Night.
(d) Black Dhalia.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, the plants that form flowers and then encased seeds are known as ______.

2. American hippies sometimes traveled the _______ in Afghanistan and returned with seeds of Cannabis Indica.

3. _______ 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.

4. The book suggests that colors and symmetries are elemental principles of ______.

5. ______ is the most widely cultivated fruit and has been put into religious stories including that of Adam and Eve.

(see the answer key)

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