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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The process through which humans and plants have shaped each other over the years is known as _______.
(a) Co-dependence.
(b) Co-evolution.
(c) Co-occurence.
(d) Co-emergence.

3. The Native Americans that knew Chapman considered him to be a brilliant woodsman and ______.
(a) Farmer.
(b) Hunter.
(c) Guide.
(d) Medicine man.

4. The domestic apple is thought to have derived from a species that originally came from the country ______.
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Pakistan.
(c) Uzbekistan.
(d) Kazakhstan.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who knew a thing or two about natural history, called the apple, _______
(a) The Canadian fruit.
(b) The best treat.
(c) A feeling of home.
(d) The American fruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. The plants that have contributed to the shaping of human existence include all of the following except _______.

2. Chapman was known to go _______ in all kinds of weather and took it as a matter of pride in his toughness.

3. The book suggests that _____ determined the evolution of the flower by valuing 'broken' strains that were sick.

4. The book states that the devotion to flowers had remnants of _____ nature worship that threatened Judeo-Christian faiths.

5. The opposite condition to the collective flower frenzy in which a person's depression keeps them from enjoying flowers is ______.

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