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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book, _____ are the only people on Earth who do not have a practice of using psychoactive plants to change consciousness.
(a) Eskimos.
(b) Australians.
(c) Icelandic people.
(d) Africans.

2. The book compares tulips in fields to ______ or lipsticks, merely flashes of bright color on the horizon.
(a) Paintbrushes.
(b) Popsickles.
(c) Lollipops.
(d) Eyeliner.

3. According to the book, species tulips in Turkey typically come in ______ and less commonly in white or yellow.
(a) Red.
(b) Orange.
(c) Purple.
(d) Blue.

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

5. In order to reduce time and energy spent on growing male sinsemilla plants which are useless, growers started ______.
(a) Using different seeds.
(b) Killing male plants.
(c) Using clones.
(d) Changing the light patterns.

Short Answer Questions

1. The concept of the apple being a healthy and wholesome fruit was dreamed up to fight the negative image from ______.

2. ________, Pollan believes, is brutally reductive, simplifying nature's incomprehensible complexity to something humanly manageable.

3. What is second nature to a gardener, who leans that every advance in his control of the garden is also an invitation for disaster?

4. According to the book, some counter strategies to these toxins include all of the following except ______.

5. Lenson points out that many people of the past tried to __________ the use of drugs by calling it imagination.

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