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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The plants that form flowers and encased seeds began to emerge on the earth during the _______ period.
(a) Triassic.
(b) Cretaceous.
(c) Jurassic.
(d) Vegetative.

4. The process of trying to impersonate other plants or animals in order to attract or repel is called ______.
(a) Tropism.
(b) Mimicry.
(c) Chemical signaling.
(d) Flattery.

5. _______ is a social ritual of sanctioned craziness and release. It is a way for the community to temporarily indulge its Dionysian urges.
(a) A mass.
(b) A birthday.
(c) A carnival.
(d) A feast.

6. The apple does not breed simply from seed. Thus all trees that produce the same type of apples are _______ of the original tree.
(a) Clones.
(b) Seeds.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Roots.

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

8. The apple was first introduced to North America with the initial waves of the ______ immigration.
(a) Middle Eastern.
(b) European.
(c) Canadian.
(d) Mexican.

9. Pollan asserts that due to the use of apple grafts from one generation to the next, the apple population has been made____.
(a) More wholesome.
(b) Weak.
(c) More nutritious.
(d) Strong.

10. Part of the Americanization of the apple had to do with the character of Johnny Appleseed whose real name was ______.
(a) William Jones.
(b) Phil Forsline.
(c) John Chapman.
(d) John Calhoun.

11. The process through which humans and plants have shaped each other over the years is known as _______.
(a) Co-occurence.
(b) Co-dependence.
(c) Co-evolution.
(d) Co-emergence.

12. The book suggests that the Ottoman ideal of tulip beauty was elegant, sharp, and ________.
(a) Sensual.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Many-colored.

13. The book suggests that _____ determined the evolution of the flower by valuing 'broken' strains that were sick.
(a) Mold.
(b) Bees.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) Humans.

14. Johnny Appleseed was famous or infamous for wearing a _______ around wherever he went.
(a) Fedora.
(b) Pair of overalls.
(c) Wool coat.
(d) Coffee sack.

15. The book suggests that colors and symmetries are elemental principles of ______.
(a) Size.
(b) Sexual reproduction.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Health.

Short Answer Questions

1. One winter, Appleseed set up a house in a _______ outside Defiance, Ohio where he operated a pair of nurseries.

2. In Holland, between 1634 and 1637, there was a collective frenzy around flowers known as ________.

3. _______ is the name of the black version of the tulip and is as close to black as a flower gets.

4. The flower that is presented as being the symbol of the human desire for beauty is the ______.

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

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