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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) Reinforce cohesion.
(b) Promote instability.
(c) Make people feel bad.
(d) Marginalize people.

2. _______ is a social ritual of sanctioned craziness and release. It is a way for the community to temporarily indulge its Dionysian urges.
(a) A feast.
(b) A carnival.
(c) A birthday.
(d) A mass.

3. Since Appleseed raised his trees from seed, most of the fruit was not suitable for _______.
(a) Eating.
(b) Selling.
(c) Composting.
(d) Making cider.

4. Before flowers, sexual reproduction consisted of _____ being dispersed by the wind to be caught by other plants.
(a) Pollen.
(b) Petals.
(c) Pistils.
(d) Stamens.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapman stated that he was promised "a true wife in heaven" and thus he never ______.

3. The opposite condition to the collective flower frenzy in which a person's depression keeps them from enjoying flowers is ______.

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

5. _______ became a new capital for marijuana cultivation during the American drug war of the nineties.

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