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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Since Appleseed raised his trees from seed, most of the fruit was not suitable for _______.
(a) Selling.
(b) Making cider.
(c) Composting.
(d) Eating.

2. ______ change the taste of plant flesh on the tongues of certain animals and can render the sweetest fruit sour.
(a) Nicotines.
(b) Daturas.
(c) Flavenoids.
(d) Anthocyanins.

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

4. The flower that is presented as being the symbol of the human desire for beauty is the ______.
(a) Tulip.
(b) Rose.
(c) Lily.
(d) Carnation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to reduce time and energy spent on growing male sinsemilla plants which are useless, growers started ______.

2. The book states that all of the following are capable of prodigies or of shifting themselves in form except _______.

3. According to the book, some of the most bitter and "bad" plants are the ones that contain the most powerful _______.

4. The process through which humans and plants have shaped each other over the years is known as _______.

5. The book suggests that _____ determined the evolution of the flower by valuing 'broken' strains that were sick.

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