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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The color of a tulip is always composed of _____ hues one of which is a base color that is always yellow or white.
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

2. Almost all apples grown for eating are cultivars, meaning that they are ______.
(a) Planted into the soil.
(b) Cuttings.
(c) Special seeds.
(d) Hydroponically grown.

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

4. The Greeks believed that true beauty was the offspring of form and ecstasy personified in ______ and Apollo.
(a) Venus.
(b) Pan.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Dionysus.

5. Before flowers, sexual reproduction consisted of _____ being dispersed by the wind to be caught by other plants.
(a) Petals.
(b) Pistils.
(c) Stamens.
(d) Pollen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book states that the devotion to flowers had remnants of _____ nature worship that threatened Judeo-Christian faiths.

2. The number of leaves that are only a tulip are typically _______. With the "turban" top, this gives them the suggesting of a human body.

3. Pollan refers to the _____ as the gothic femme fatale in the masculine world of tulips.

4. Johnny Appleseed was famous or infamous for wearing a _______ around wherever he went.

5. Johnny Appleseed was known to use a _________ in order to transport his seeds across the water.

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