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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Exercise.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Fasting.

2. Farmers who plant Bt crops must leave a certain portion of their land for non-Bt crops to provide a ________ for the bugs.
(a) Trap.
(b) Study.
(c) Refuge.
(d) School.

3. What is second nature to a gardener, who leans that every advance in his control of the garden is also an invitation for disaster?
(a) Preparations.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) Ironies.
(d) Guesses.

4. The _________ in the potato is what causes it to produce its own pest killing chemicals, keeping other chemicals from being necessary.
(a) Vitamin.
(b) Starch.
(c) Genome.
(d) Gene.

5. American hippies sometimes traveled the _______ in Afghanistan and returned with seeds of Cannabis Indica.
(a) The Indica Trail.
(b) The Hemp Trail.
(c) The Hashish Trail.
(d) The Bud Trail.

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

7. According to the book, drugs that alter the user's perception of time and space are taboo because they disrupt the _______.
(a) Social order.
(b) Verbal order.
(c) Political order.
(d) Religious order.

8. Pollan believes that the idea of planting and of growing plants causes humans to be filled with a sense of _________.
(a) Humility.
(b) Power.
(c) Honor.
(d) Peace.

9. The book states that one culture's cure all could be another culture's 'root of all evil' also known as ________.
(a) Panapathogen.
(b) Panacea.
(c) Pangaia.
(d) Pangea.

10. What is Pollan not allowed to do with the NewLeaf potatoes at the end of the year, according to the law?
(a) Hide them.
(b) Sell them.
(c) Eat them.
(d) Replant them.

11. The book suggests that gardens used to be planted as a kind of living _____ that cared little for aesthetics.
(a) Display of beauty.
(b) Apothecary.
(c) Art form.
(d) Mandala.

12. In the book, Pollan was almost caught by the police for growing a couple of ______ plants on his property.
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Morning glory.
(c) Datura.
(d) Poppy.

13. What kind of storm took place in December of 1999, causing the gardens of Versailles to be ruined?
(a) Snow storm.
(b) Windstorm.
(c) Tornado.
(d) Flood.

14. One way to look at ___________ engineering is to think that it allows humans to insert their intelligence into a crop.
(a) Weather.
(b) Equipment.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Genetic.

15. The book suggests that the decisions that a culture makes in which plants drugs to promote or prohibit help to ______.
(a) Make people feel bad.
(b) Marginalize people.
(c) Promote instability.
(d) Reinforce cohesion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan suggests that drugs have both positive and negative qualities. The wine of _______ was both a scourge and a blessing.

2. Who took to wearing potato flowers in her hair in order to encourage the peasants to grow this plant for themselves?

3. John Chapman had the imagination to identify with the _________ in the ecology of the world.

4. The author speculates that in order to transcend the normal day experience, we may need to a single volume of knowledge, which is a natural history of the __________.

5. Lenson points out that many people of the past tried to __________ the use of drugs by calling it imagination.

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