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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tukano Indians in the Amazon noticed Jaguars eating a vine, which was atypical for them and helped the Indians discover ______.
(a) Yaje.
(b) Datura.
(c) Mistletoe.
(d) Cannabis.

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) Study.
(b) Trap.
(c) Refuge.
(d) School.

3. Certain drugs, Pollan states, will cause objects around us to change until they appear as the _________ versions of themselves.
(a) Opposite.
(b) Ideal.
(c) Glowing.
(d) Enjoyable.

4. The color of a tulip is always composed of _____ hues one of which is a base color that is always yellow or white.
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. The flower that is presented as being the symbol of the human desire for beauty is the ______.
(a) Tulip.
(b) Rose.
(c) Lily.
(d) Carnation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is second nature to a gardener, who leans that every advance in his control of the garden is also an invitation for disaster?

3. Appleseed was able to compete with other apple cultivar sales because his trees were ______.

4. Instead of wind and water moving genetic material around, the emerging plants were now enlisting the help of ______.

5. 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.

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