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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ______ is a sign of health in creatures since mutations and disease can easily disrupt it.
(a) Color.
(b) Asymmetry.
(c) Symmetry.
(d) Size.

2. The apple was first introduced to North America with the initial waves of the ______ immigration.
(a) Canadian.
(b) European.
(c) Middle Eastern.
(d) Mexican.

3. One winter, Appleseed set up a house in a _______ outside Defiance, Ohio where he operated a pair of nurseries.
(a) Log cabin.
(b) Airplane hanger.
(c) Hollowed-out sycamore stump.
(d) Swamp.

4. The book suggests that Herbert's view of tulipmania is a parable of utopianism, specifically _______.
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Aparteid.
(d) Socialism.

5. The tulip that Pollan has on his desk, a Queen of Night, has no ______, which he indicates is because it is meant to be visual.
(a) Scent.
(b) Taste.
(c) Soil.
(d) Leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. The concept of the apple being a healthy and wholesome fruit was dreamed up to fight the negative image from ______.

2. _______ is the name of the black version of the tulip and is as close to black as a flower gets.

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

4. Johnny Appleseed raised ______ for sale and subsequent transplantation.

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

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