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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Flowers are unable to choose ______ and therefore must rely on extravagant displays to attract insects.
(a) Climate.
(b) Weather.
(c) Soil.
(d) Mates.

2. The book suggests that gardens used to be planted as a kind of living _____ that cared little for aesthetics.
(a) Apothecary.
(b) Art form.
(c) Mandala.
(d) Display of beauty.

3. ______ orchard has become a kind of museum for several different apple species dedicated to maintaining the diversity.
(a) Mansfied.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Ohio.

4. Chapman is known to have floated one hundred miles down the Allegheny river on _______, fast asleep.
(a) A canoe.
(b) A raft.
(c) A block of ice.
(d) A log.

5. The book states that the devotion to flowers had remnants of _____ nature worship that threatened Judeo-Christian faiths.
(a) Swedenborgian.
(b) Islamic.
(c) Lutheran.
(d) Pagan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Certain drugs, Pollan states, will cause objects around us to change until they appear as the _________ versions of themselves.

2. ______ change the taste of plant flesh on the tongues of certain animals and can render the sweetest fruit sour.

3. The book states that Johnny Appleseed died in 1845 in _______ Indiana.

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

5. The consensus in Holland was that the tulip ______ was the most beautiful flower in the world and a masterpiece.

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