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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The concept of the apple being a healthy and wholesome fruit was dreamed up to fight the negative image from ______.
(a) The Women's Christian Plant Union.
(b) The Women's Christian Union.
(c) The Women's Christian Abstinence Union.
(d) The Women's Christian Temperance Union.

2. According to the book, there are ______ plants that have shaped human existence at least as much as human's have affected these plants.
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

3. The Greeks believed that true beauty was the offspring of form and ecstasy personified in ______ and Apollo.
(a) Venus.
(b) Pan.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Dionysus.

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

5. Red and Golden are two forms of North American cultivars of this particular type of apple ______.
(a) Delicious.
(b) Tasty.
(c) Amazing.
(d) Juicy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Flowers have been given the ability to attract other species using a variety of senses except ______.

2. Instead of wind and water moving genetic material around, the emerging plants were now enlisting the help of ______.

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

4. According to the book, the plants that form flowers and then encased seeds are known as ______.

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

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