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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Flowers are unable to choose ______ and therefore must rely on extravagant displays to attract insects.
(a) Soil.
(b) Mates.
(c) Climate.
(d) Weather.

2. Teaching men how to ferment the juice of the grape, ______ had brought civilization the gift of wine.
(a) Apollo.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Venus.

3. Johnny Appleseed was known for introducing the apple to the following states except _____.
(a) Illinois.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Indiana.

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

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who knew a thing or two about natural history, called the apple, _______
(a) A feeling of home.
(b) The Canadian fruit.
(c) The American fruit.
(d) The best treat.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______ present in species such as the wild parsnip cause the animals that eat it to burn in the sun.

2. The book states that the potato plant was stolen from the royal gardens of ______.

3. The consensus in Holland was that the tulip ______ was the most beautiful flower in the world and a masterpiece.

4. Chapman was known to go _______ in all kinds of weather and took it as a matter of pride in his toughness.

5. One winter, Appleseed set up a house in a _______ outside Defiance, Ohio where he operated a pair of nurseries.

(see the answer key)

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