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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The book states that beauty in nature is often linked with ______ as evidenced by a bird's plumage.
(a) Territory.
(b) Sex.
(c) Food.
(d) Aggression.

3. The Dutch genius for horticulture leftover from the ________ combined with the influx of new seeds.
(a) Apple craze.
(b) Night Queen craze.
(c) Tulip craze.
(d) Rose craze.

4. Until the mid-1970s, most of the marijuana in America was grown in _______ and was often sprayed with a pesticide paraquat.
(a) Canada.
(b) Peru.
(c) Mexico.
(d) America.

5. According to the book, species tulips in Turkey typically come in ______ and less commonly in white or yellow.
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Orange.
(d) Purple.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of wind and water moving genetic material around, the emerging plants were now enlisting the help of ______.

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

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

4. The Greeks believed that true beauty was the offspring of form and ecstasy personified in ______ and Apollo.

5. Red and Golden are two forms of North American cultivars of this particular type of apple ______.

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