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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book suggests that the decisions that a culture makes in which plants drugs to promote or prohibit help to ______.
(a) Promote instability.
(b) Marginalize people.
(c) Make people feel bad.
(d) Reinforce cohesion.

2. Pollan asserts that Jews and Christians discouraged devotion to flowers because it was a threat to _______.
(a) Deism.
(b) Polytheism.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Tropism.

3. The number of leaves that are only a tulip are typically _______. With the "turban" top, this gives them the suggesting of a human body.
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

4. ______ is the most widely cultivated fruit and has been put into religious stories including that of Adam and Eve.
(a) Potato.
(b) Banana.
(c) Apple.
(d) Peach.

5. Chapman planted 'Johnny weed' because he thought that it would prevent the contraction of ______.
(a) Malaria.
(b) Polio.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Hayfever.

Short Answer Questions

1. The apple was first introduced to North America with the initial waves of the ______ immigration.

2. The apple is presented in this book as strongly appealing to humanity's desire for _______.

3. Tukano Indians in the Amazon noticed Jaguars eating a vine, which was atypical for them and helped the Indians discover ______.

4. The author speculates that in order to transcend the normal day experience, we may need to a single volume of knowledge, which is a natural history of the __________.

5. A _______ is one that is used for getting cuttings. Like the apples, the result of the impact of this may be detrimental to the species.

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