The Botany of Desire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Botany of Desire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapman stated that he was promised "a true wife in heaven" and thus he never ______.
(a) Spoke to women.
(b) Married.
(c) Had relationships.
(d) Lived at home.

2. _______ is an annual convention and harvest fair sponsored by High Times Magazine that attracts many growers.
(a) The Cannabis Chalice.
(b) The Cannabis Cup.
(c) The Cannabis Challenge.
(d) The Cannabis Contest.

3. The book suggests that the decisions that a culture makes in which plants drugs to promote or prohibit help to ______.
(a) Make people feel bad.
(b) Marginalize people.
(c) Reinforce cohesion.
(d) Promote instability.

4. According to the book, _____ are the only people on Earth who do not have a practice of using psychoactive plants to change consciousness.
(a) Australians.
(b) Icelandic people.
(c) Africans.
(d) Eskimos.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who knew a thing or two about natural history, called the apple, _______
(a) The best treat.
(b) A feeling of home.
(c) The Canadian fruit.
(d) The American fruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. The number of leaves that are only a tulip are typically _______. With the "turban" top, this gives them the suggesting of a human body.

2. Pollan refers to the _____ as the gothic femme fatale in the masculine world of tulips.

3. Appleseed used most of his crops in order to make ______, which led him to be thought of as an 'American Dionysus.'

4. The book suggests that the Ottoman ideal of tulip beauty was elegant, sharp, and ________.

5. The _____ was linked to the corruption of the Catholic church, while the apple was linked with wholesome Protestantism.

(see the answer key)

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