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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the lifetime of Johnny Appleseed, Ohio law required a settler to put out ___ apple or pear trees in order to get a land grant.
(a) 50.
(b) 20.
(c) 40.
(d) 30.

2. One winter, Appleseed set up a house in a _______ outside Defiance, Ohio where he operated a pair of nurseries.
(a) Log cabin.
(b) Hollowed-out sycamore stump.
(c) Airplane hanger.
(d) Swamp.

3. According to the book, there are ______ plants that have shaped human existence at least as much as human's have affected these plants.
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

4. _______ is an annual convention and harvest fair sponsored by High Times Magazine that attracts many growers.
(a) The Cannabis Contest.
(b) The Cannabis Cup.
(c) The Cannabis Challenge.
(d) The Cannabis Chalice.

5. Pollan suggests that on a biochemical level, psychoactive plants affect the brain much the way that the following activities except ______ affect it.
(a) Fasting.
(b) Cold showers.
(c) Exercise.
(d) Meditation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The books suggests that all of the following are successful defenses plants have adopted except _______.

2. Chinese poets likened the blossoms of the peony to a ______.

3. The book suggests that colors and symmetries are elemental principles of ______.

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

5. Psychoactive drugs serve as bridges between the worlds of matter and spirit, or in modern language _______and consciousness.

(see the answer key)

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