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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.
(a) Mystery.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Sublime.
(d) Truth.

2. _______ are substances studied by ethnobotanists and refer to "the god within."
(a) Hallucinogens.
(b) Entheogens.
(c) Carcinogens.
(d) Pathogens.

3. What sort of potato was developed by the Incan people and just one of the many potatoes which used to grow?
(a) Striped.
(b) Blue.
(c) Gold.
(d) Spotted.

4. Factors restricting the growth of marijuana that indoor gardeners were able to control include the following except _______.
(a) Light.
(b) Nutrients.
(c) Heat.
(d) Disease.

5. Antheleme Brillat-Savarin noted, "Tell me what you _______ and I will tell you what you are."
(a) Believe.
(b) Know.
(c) Eat.
(d) Grow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan believes that the idea of planting and of growing plants causes humans to be filled with a sense of _________.

2. Where are the Monsanto headquarters located, according to Pollan's description in the book?

3. One way to look at ___________ engineering is to think that it allows humans to insert their intelligence into a crop.

4. Certain drugs, Pollan states, will cause objects around us to change until they appear as the _________ versions of themselves.

5. The scourge of potatoes has always been the _________ potato beetle, which can pick a plant clean of its leaves.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the status of marijuana use and growing in Amsterdam, according to Pollan in his book?

2. After a few days of drenching rain, what did the NewLeaf potato plants look like in Pollan's garden?

3. What are some of the intoxicants and ingredients for intoxicants which Pollan admits to growing in his garden now?

4. Where was marijuana primarily grown up until the early 1980s when the war on drugs began?

5. What did Heath have to say about Pollan's question about pest resistance to the chemicals the potatoes are designed to produce?

6. As the various lands in Europe began to rely on the potato, what were the positive benefits of this situation?

7. How does one begin to grow potatoes, according to Pollan in the book?

8. What was going on at the time of Pollan's visit to Amsterdam for research for this book?

9. Why were the Irish open to farming the potato in order to provide food for themselves?

10. Describe the experience Pollan had when the police almost found his large marijuana plants in his backyard?

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