View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The book states that all of the following are capable of prodigies or of shifting themselves in form except _______.
(a) Tulip.
(b) Rose.
(c) Lotus.
(d) Orchid.

3. Appleseed had originally come west from the state of _____ when he was 23 years old.
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Maine.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) New York.

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

5. In Holland, between 1634 and 1637, there was a collective frenzy around flowers known as ________.
(a) Rosemania.
(b) Carnationmania.
(c) Lilymania.
(d) Tulipmania.

Short Answer Questions

1. Teaching men how to ferment the juice of the grape, ______ had brought civilization the gift of wine.

2. The book states that one culture's cure all could be another culture's 'root of all evil' also known as ________.

3. The early colonists to America in addition to bringing grafts also brought apple seeds to plant called ______.

4. The Greeks believed that true beauty was the offspring of form and ecstasy personified in ______ and Apollo.

5. Petals curving inward to hide its sexual organs, the tulip is ______ among flowers, and somewhat aloof.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 223 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample