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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fortius, a professor, could be seen patrolling the streets of the city, ______ any tulip that he encountered.
(a) Picking.
(b) Beating.
(c) Digging up.
(d) Praising.

2. Andrew Weil has referred to marijuana as an _____________ when taking account of the phenomenon.
(a) Inane drug.
(b) Idiotic choice.
(c) Insane mind game.
(d) Active placebo.

3. The French romantics were said to have experimented with ________ after Napoleon's troops brought it back with them from Egypt.
(a) Cocaine.
(b) Speed.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Opium.

4. The apple does not breed simply from seed. Thus all trees that produce the same type of apples are _______ of the original tree.
(a) Seeds.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Clones.
(d) Roots.

5. The _____ was linked to the corruption of the Catholic church, while the apple was linked with wholesome Protestantism.
(a) Fig.
(b) Banana.
(c) Peach.
(d) Grape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan suggests that drugs have both positive and negative qualities. The wine of _______ was both a scourge and a blessing.

2. The Native Americans that knew Chapman considered him to be a brilliant woodsman and ______.

3. Since Appleseed raised his trees from seed, most of the fruit was not suitable for _______.

4. 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.

5. Apple trees are able to reproduce _______ which helps to facilitate their ability to be grafted to a root stock.

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