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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _______ is the tulip grower's term for the phenomenon that causes certain flowers in a field to revert to the form and color of their parent.
(a) Metamorphosis.
(b) Telekinesis.
(c) Tropism.
(d) Thievery.

2. The book suggests that Herbert's view of tulipmania is a parable of utopianism, specifically _______.
(a) Aparteid.
(b) Communism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Socialism.

3. The books suggests that all of the following are successful defenses plants have adopted except _______.
(a) Death-dealing toxins.
(b) Disable.
(c) Repel.
(d) Confound.

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

5. Chapman stated that he was promised "a true wife in heaven" and thus he never ______.
(a) Married.
(b) Had relationships.
(c) Lived at home.
(d) Spoke to women.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book states that before flowers there was no connection between the way things looked and ______.

2. Johnny Appleseed was opposed to using _____ in order to grow trees and preferred planting seeds.

3. The book states that one culture's cure all could be another culture's 'root of all evil' also known as ________.

4. Pollan asserts that Jews and Christians discouraged devotion to flowers because it was a threat to _______.

5. The book states that the presence of flowers is a reliable predictor of future _____ and therefore was important to humans in the past.

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