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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Johnny Appleseed was famous or infamous for wearing a _______ around wherever he went.
(a) Fedora.
(b) Wool coat.
(c) Pair of overalls.
(d) Coffee sack.

2. Teaching men how to ferment the juice of the grape, ______ had brought civilization the gift of wine.
(a) Venus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Dionysus.

3. The apple does not breed simply from seed. Thus all trees that produce the same type of apples are _______ of the original tree.
(a) Clones.
(b) Seeds.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Roots.

4. The domestic apple is thought to have derived from a species that originally came from the country ______.
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Uzbekistan.
(c) Kazakhstan.
(d) Pakistan.

5. Almost all apples grown for eating are cultivars, meaning that they are ______.
(a) Cuttings.
(b) Special seeds.
(c) Hydroponically grown.
(d) Planted into the soil.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______, which contains a much higher amount of alcohol than hard cider, could be obtained through freezing.

2. Appleseed was able to compete with other apple cultivar sales because his trees were ______.

3. ________ was an American Pioneer and introduced the apple in the Midwestern United States.

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

5. The apple was first introduced to North America with the initial waves of the ______ immigration.

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