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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _______ or 'white lightning' preceded hard cider as the alcohol containing drink of choice on the frontier.
(a) Corn liquor.
(b) Potato vodka.
(c) Potato liquor.
(d) Rum.

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

3. The process through which humans and plants have shaped each other over the years is known as _______.
(a) Co-dependence.
(b) Co-occurence.
(c) Co-emergence.
(d) Co-evolution.

4. Chapman was known to go _______ in all kinds of weather and took it as a matter of pride in his toughness.
(a) Barefoot.
(b) Without his hat.
(c) Without a coat.
(d) Hunting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The fact that apple seeds do not produce a similar apple as the tree they came from is scientifically called ______.

2. Chapman practiced the faith of ______ and was known to launch into sermons when visiting.

3. Pollan asserts that due to the use of apple grafts from one generation to the next, the apple population has been made____.

4. Red and Golden are two forms of North American cultivars of this particular type of apple ______.

5. The apple does not breed simply from seed. Thus all trees that produce the same type of apples are _______ of the original tree.

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