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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 _____ determined the evolution of the flower by valuing 'broken' strains that were sick.
(a) Humans.
(b) Mold.
(c) Bees.
(d) Bacteria.

2. _______ is the name of the black version of the tulip and is as close to black as a flower gets.
(a) Queen of Night.
(b) Black Dhalia.
(c) Queen of Darkness.
(d) Queen of Despair.

3. The consensus in Holland was that the tulip ______ was the most beautiful flower in the world and a masterpiece.
(a) Semper Augustus.
(b) Black Dahlia.
(c) Queen of Darkness.
(d) Queen of Night.

4. The Greeks believed that true beauty was the offspring of form and ecstasy personified in ______ and Apollo.
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Pan.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Venus.

5. Lenson points out that many people of the past tried to __________ the use of drugs by calling it imagination.
(a) Sanitize.
(b) Discourage.
(c) Laugh about.
(d) Ignore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Factors restricting the growth of marijuana that indoor gardeners were able to control include the following except _______.

2. The tulip is considered by the author to be the most ______ of flowers, referring especially to the way the flower forces itself out of the ground.

3. Flowers have been given the ability to attract other species using a variety of senses except ______.

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

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

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