The Botany of Desire Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Botany of Desire Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 states that before flowers there was no connection between the way things looked and ______.
(a) Suvival.
(b) Desire.
(c) Reproduction.
(d) Their function.

2. The book states that the effect of making pot illegal was that the counterculture engaged in _______the plant.
(a) Weakening.
(b) Killing.
(c) Destroying.
(d) Genetically modifying.

3. _______ became a new capital for marijuana cultivation during the American drug war of the nineties.
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) San Francisco.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who knew a thing or two about natural history, called the apple, _______

2. ________ was an American Pioneer and introduced the apple in the Midwestern United States.

3. American hippies sometimes traveled the _______ in Afghanistan and returned with seeds of Cannabis Indica.

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

5. According to the book, the word _____ is a corruption of the Turkish word for Turban.

(see the answer key)

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