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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pollan suggests that drugs have both positive and negative qualities. The wine of _______ was both a scourge and a blessing.
(a) Apollo.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Venus.
(d) Zeus.

2. _________ is one example of a chemical which was tested before it was used, only to find that later on it affected other ecosystems.
(a) DDT.
(b) Neem oil.
(c) Marigolds.
(d) Bt.

3. The book states that beauty in nature is often linked with ______ as evidenced by a bird's plumage.
(a) Sex.
(b) Territory.
(c) Food.
(d) Aggression.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Nature, Pollan admits, seems to be filled with ___________, making the growth process nearly impossible to control.

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

3. Dave Hjelle from Monstanto tells Pollan something that makes him a little concerned. He says, "______________."

4. Some of the ways children have been known to seek this altered state of consciousness include all of the following except______.

5. The book compares tulips in fields to ______ or lipsticks, merely flashes of bright color on the horizon.

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