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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 raised ______ for sale and subsequent transplantation.
(a) Apple seeds.
(b) Apple cuttings.
(c) Apple clones.
(d) Apple trees.

2. Appleseed was able to compete with other apple cultivar sales because his trees were ______.
(a) Easily accessible.
(b) Low quality.
(c) Cheap.
(d) High quality.

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

4. Johnny Appleseed was known to use a _________ in order to transport his seeds across the water.
(a) Single-hulled canoe.
(b) Two-hulled canoe.
(c) Row boat.
(d) Mule.

5. The Native Americans that knew Chapman considered him to be a brilliant woodsman and ______.
(a) Farmer.
(b) Medicine man.
(c) Guide.
(d) Hunter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Michael Pollen compares Chapman to the Greek mythological figures _______.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who knew a thing or two about natural history, called the apple, _______

3. Johnny Appleseed was famous or infamous for wearing a _______ around wherever he went.

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

5. Since Appleseed raised his trees from seed, most of the fruit was not suitable for _______.

(see the answer key)

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