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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _______ 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) Thievery.
(b) Tropism.
(c) Telekinesis.
(d) Metamorphosis.

2. The scourge of potatoes has always been the _________ potato beetle, which can pick a plant clean of its leaves.
(a) Wyoming.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Idaho.

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

4. Some Christians believed that potato was the _________ matter, while bread was antimatter and even spirit in nature.
(a) Hell.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Base.
(d) Lower.

5. ______, which contains a much higher amount of alcohol than hard cider, could be obtained through freezing.
(a) Vodka.
(b) Applejack.
(c) Brandy.
(d) Rum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Factors restricting the growth of marijuana that indoor gardeners were able to control include the following except _______.

2. Flowers are unable to choose ______ and therefore must rely on extravagant displays to attract insects.

3. The French romantics were said to have experimented with ________ after Napoleon's troops brought it back with them from Egypt.

4. The book suggests that the Ottoman ideal of tulip beauty was elegant, sharp, and ________.

5. According to the book, there are ______ plants that have shaped human existence at least as much as human's have affected these plants.

(see the answer key)

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