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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ______ is the most widely cultivated fruit and has been put into religious stories including that of Adam and Eve.
(a) Potato.
(b) Banana.
(c) Apple.
(d) Peach.

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

3. ______ has written two books claiming that consciousness changing is a basic human activity that even children seek out.
(a) Michael Pollan.
(b) Andrew Weil.
(c) Michael Palin.
(d) Deepak Chopra.

4. Tukano Indians in the Amazon noticed Jaguars eating a vine, which was atypical for them and helped the Indians discover ______.
(a) Yaje.
(b) Cannabis.
(c) Mistletoe.
(d) Datura.

5. American hippies sometimes traveled the _______ in Afghanistan and returned with seeds of Cannabis Indica.
(a) The Bud Trail.
(b) The Hemp Trail.
(c) The Hashish Trail.
(d) The Indica Trail.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______ change the taste of plant flesh on the tongues of certain animals and can render the sweetest fruit sour.

2. The book states that the presence of flowers is a reliable predictor of future _____ and therefore was important to humans in the past.

3. ______ present in species such as the wild parsnip cause the animals that eat it to burn in the sun.

4. Part of the Americanization of the apple had to do with the character of Johnny Appleseed whose real name was ______.

5. Appleseed was able to compete with other apple cultivar sales because his trees were ______.

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