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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book states that the potato plant was stolen from the royal gardens of ______.
(a) Louis X.
(b) Louis XVI.
(c) Louis V.
(d) Louis IV.

2. The book states that before flowers there was no connection between the way things looked and ______.
(a) Suvival.
(b) Their function.
(c) Reproduction.
(d) Desire.

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

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

5. The tulip is considered by the author to be the most ______ of flowers, referring especially to the way the flower forces itself out of the ground.
(a) Masculine.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Androgynous.
(d) Pathetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan asserts that Jews and Christians discouraged devotion to flowers because it was a threat to _______.

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

3. Before flowers, sexual reproduction consisted of _____ being dispersed by the wind to be caught by other plants.

4. In 1812, Chapman ran thirty miles to warn settlers of the approach of troops, a feat known as _______.

5. Chapman is known to have floated one hundred miles down the Allegheny river on _______, fast asleep.

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