The Botany of Desire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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 B

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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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Johnny Appleseed was famous or infamous for wearing a _______ around wherever he went.
(a) Wool coat.
(b) Coffee sack.
(c) Fedora.
(d) Pair of overalls.

2. The fact that apple seeds do not produce a similar apple as the tree they came from is scientifically called ______.
(a) Protozygosity.
(b) Heterozygosity.
(c) Homozygosity.
(d) Lumozygosity.

3. Johnny Appleseed is generally acknowledged as having planted _______ of apple seeds across a wide range of orchards.
(a) Thousands.
(b) Tens of thousands.
(c) Hundreds of thousands.
(d) Hundreds.

4. Chapman was known to go _______ in all kinds of weather and took it as a matter of pride in his toughness.
(a) Barefoot.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Without a coat.
(d) Without his hat.

5. In the book, Johnny Appleseed was called a benign _________ of the American Fronteir.
(a) Saint Phillip.
(b) Saint Francis.
(c) Saint Augustine.
(d) Saint Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapman practiced the faith of ______ and was known to launch into sermons when visiting.

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

3. Red and Golden are two forms of North American cultivars of this particular type of apple ______.

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

5. The Native Americans that knew Chapman considered him to be a brilliant woodsman and ______.

(see the answer key)

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