The Botany of Desire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Botany of Desire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book, drugs that alter the user's perception of time and space are taboo because they disrupt the _______.
(a) Religious order.
(b) Social order.
(c) Political order.
(d) Verbal order.

2. Flowers have been given the ability to attract other species using a variety of senses except ______.
(a) Visual.
(b) Olfactory.
(c) Tactile.
(d) Auditory.

3. The book suggests that _______ calls to human desire to alter the textures and contents of our consciousness.
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Apples.
(c) Tulips.
(d) Marijuana.

4. The book states that certain flowers are reminiscent of Greek Gods. The rose and the peony are stated to be flowers of ______.
(a) Venus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Dionysus.

5. According to the book, the human penchant for drugs has allowed people to trip the brain's ______ system washing the brain in 'feel good' chemicals.
(a) Reward.
(b) Failure.
(c) Alert.
(d) Response.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______, which contains a much higher amount of alcohol than hard cider, could be obtained through freezing.

2. _______ are substances studied by ethnobotanists and refer to "the god within."

3. ______ is a sign of health in creatures since mutations and disease can easily disrupt it.

4. The book states that although marijuana cultivation is driven to some extent by money, the underlying principle is that of ______.

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

(see the answer key)

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