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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Peruvian legend has it that _____ are associated with the discovery of quinine through eating the bark of the cinchona tree.
(a) Toucans.
(b) Macaws.
(c) Pumas.
(d) Jaguars.

3. Pollan asserts that Jews and Christians discouraged devotion to flowers because it was a threat to _______.
(a) Deism.
(b) Monotheism.
(c) Tropism.
(d) Polytheism.

4. Johnny Appleseed was opposed to using _____ in order to grow trees and preferred planting seeds.
(a) Cuttings.
(b) Roots.
(c) Genetic engineering.
(d) Leaves.

5. ______ change the taste of plant flesh on the tongues of certain animals and can render the sweetest fruit sour.
(a) Nicotines.
(b) Daturas.
(c) Anthocyanins.
(d) Flavenoids.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Red and Golden are two forms of North American cultivars of this particular type of apple ______.

3. Pigeons are associated with the discovery of ______ because of their spacing out behavior after eating the seeds.

4. ______, which contains a much higher amount of alcohol than hard cider, could be obtained through freezing.

5. The book states that almost all cultures around the world love flowers with the notable exception of _______.

(see the answer key)

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