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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book states that before flowers there was no connection between the way things looked and ______.
(a) Desire.
(b) Suvival.
(c) Their function.
(d) Reproduction.

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

3. The _________ in the potato is what causes it to produce its own pest killing chemicals, keeping other chemicals from being necessary.
(a) Starch.
(b) Vitamin.
(c) Gene.
(d) Genome.

4. The book states that beauty in nature is often linked with ______ as evidenced by a bird's plumage.
(a) Food.
(b) Territory.
(c) Aggression.
(d) Sex.

5. One way to look at ___________ engineering is to think that it allows humans to insert their intelligence into a crop.
(a) Weather.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Genetic.
(d) Equipment.

Short Answer Questions

1. The book compares tulips in fields to ______ or lipsticks, merely flashes of bright color on the horizon.

2. The author speculates that in order to transcend the normal day experience, we may need to a single volume of knowledge, which is a natural history of the __________.

3. What sort of potato was developed by the Incan people and just one of the many potatoes which used to grow?

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

5. Certain drugs, Pollan states, will cause objects around us to change until they appear as the _________ versions of themselves.

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