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. Pollan suggests that on a biochemical level, psychoactive plants affect the brain much the way that the following activities except ______ affect it.
(a) Fasting.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Cold showers.
(d) Exercise.

2. Apple trees are able to reproduce _______ which helps to facilitate their ability to be grafted to a root stock.
(a) Sexually.
(b) Daily.
(c) Periodically.
(d) Asexually.

3. The early colonists to America in addition to bringing grafts also brought apple seeds to plant called ______.
(a) Pippins.
(b) Merrys.
(c) Cores.
(d) Spots.

4. Chinese poets likened the blossoms of the peony to a ______.
(a) Bee's sexual organs.
(b) Elephant's sexual organs.
(c) Woman's sexual organs.
(d) Man's sexual organs.

5. Chapman is known to have floated one hundred miles down the Allegheny river on _______, fast asleep.
(a) A block of ice.
(b) A canoe.
(c) A log.
(d) A raft.

Short Answer Questions

1. American hippies sometimes traveled the _______ in Afghanistan and returned with seeds of Cannabis Indica.

2. When a buyer of tulips finished the sale, they were required to pay "wijnkoopsgeld" or ______ money.

3. The book states that one culture's cure all could be another culture's 'root of all evil' also known as ________.

4. _______ became a new capital for marijuana cultivation during the American drug war of the nineties.

5. Chapman planted 'Johnny weed' because he thought that it would prevent the contraction of ______.

(see the answer key)

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