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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapman is known to have floated one hundred miles down the Allegheny river on _______, fast asleep.
(a) A canoe.
(b) A raft.
(c) A block of ice.
(d) A log.

2. Johnny Appleseed is generally acknowledged as having planted _______ of apple seeds across a wide range of orchards.
(a) Hundreds of thousands.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Tens of thousands.

3. Chapman practiced the faith of ______ and was known to launch into sermons when visiting.
(a) Pessimism.
(b) Catholocism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Swedenborgism.

4. The _____ was linked to the corruption of the Catholic church, while the apple was linked with wholesome Protestantism.
(a) Peach.
(b) Banana.
(c) Grape.
(d) Fig.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Chapman was credited for introducing 'Johnny weed' or ________, to the state of Ohio.

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

(see the answer key)

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