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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Certain drugs, Pollan states, will cause objects around us to change until they appear as the _________ versions of themselves.
(a) Ideal.
(b) Opposite.
(c) Glowing.
(d) Enjoyable.

2. The Dutch genius for horticulture leftover from the ________ combined with the influx of new seeds.
(a) Rose craze.
(b) Tulip craze.
(c) Apple craze.
(d) Night Queen craze.

3. What is Pollan not allowed to do with the NewLeaf potatoes at the end of the year, according to the law?
(a) Hide them.
(b) Eat them.
(c) Replant them.
(d) Sell them.

4. The book suggests that the Ottoman ideal of tulip beauty was elegant, sharp, and ________.
(a) Masculine.
(b) Many-colored.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Sensual.

5. _______ is the tulip grower's term for the phenomenon that causes certain flowers in a field to revert to the form and color of their parent.
(a) Telekinesis.
(b) Thievery.
(c) Metamorphosis.
(d) Tropism.

Short Answer 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.

2. The scourge of potatoes has always been the _________ potato beetle, which can pick a plant clean of its leaves.

3. _______ is the name of the black version of the tulip and is as close to black as a flower gets.

4. Chapman stated that he was promised "a true wife in heaven" and thus he never ______.

5. Into what kind of plant have plant breeders inserted a gene from a firefly, making the plants glow, although for no apparent reason, according to Pollan?

(see the answer key)

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