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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book suggests that _______ calls to human desire to alter the textures and contents of our consciousness.
(a) Apples.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Tulips.
(d) Potatoes.

2. Apples were the only avenue early settlers had for obtaining ______, which the Native Americans obtained from Maples.
(a) Vitamin D.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Water.
(d) Sugar.

3. The plants that form flowers and encased seeds began to emerge on the earth during the _______ period.
(a) Jurassic.
(b) Cretaceous.
(c) Vegetative.
(d) Triassic.

4. Andrew Weil has referred to marijuana as an _____________ when taking account of the phenomenon.
(a) Active placebo.
(b) Inane drug.
(c) Insane mind game.
(d) Idiotic choice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The tulip that Pollan has on his desk, a Queen of Night, has no ______, which he indicates is because it is meant to be visual.

2. Chinese poets likened the blossoms of the peony to a ______.

3. _______ is the tulip grower's term for the phenomenon that causes certain flowers in a field to revert to the form and color of their parent.

4. Johnny Appleseed raised ______ for sale and subsequent transplantation.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who knew a thing or two about natural history, called the apple, _______

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