The Botany of Desire Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Botany of Desire Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 beauty in nature is often linked with ______ as evidenced by a bird's plumage.
(a) Food.
(b) Aggression.
(c) Sex.
(d) Territory.

2. ______ is the most widely cultivated fruit and has been put into religious stories including that of Adam and Eve.
(a) Peach.
(b) Apple.
(c) Potato.
(d) Banana.

3. The fact that apple seeds do not produce a similar apple as the tree they came from is scientifically called ______.
(a) Protozygosity.
(b) Homozygosity.
(c) Heterozygosity.
(d) Lumozygosity.

4. The book states that certain flowers are reminiscent of Greek Gods. The rose and the peony are stated to be flowers of ______.
(a) Venus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Dionysus.

5. _______ became a new capital for marijuana cultivation during the American drug war of the nineties.
(a) Berlin.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Paris.
(d) San Francisco.

Short Answer Questions

1. Apple trees are able to reproduce _______ which helps to facilitate their ability to be grafted to a root stock.

2. Pigeons are associated with the discovery of ______ because of their spacing out behavior after eating the seeds.

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

4. John Chapman had the imagination to identify with the _________ in the ecology of the world.

5. Appleseed had originally come west from the state of _____ when he was 23 years old.

(see the answer key)

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