View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. ______ orchard has become a kind of museum for several different apple species dedicated to maintaining the diversity.
(a) Ohio.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Mansfied.
(d) Indiana.

3. The tulip is considered by the author to be the most ______ of flowers, referring especially to the way the flower forces itself out of the ground.
(a) Pathetic.
(b) Androgynous.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Feminine.

4. The scourge of potatoes has always been the _________ potato beetle, which can pick a plant clean of its leaves.
(a) Colorado.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Idaho.

5. The book states that the devotion to flowers had remnants of _____ nature worship that threatened Judeo-Christian faiths.
(a) Lutheran.
(b) Islamic.
(c) Swedenborgian.
(d) Pagan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The apple was first introduced to North America with the initial waves of the ______ immigration.

2. The plants that form flowers and encased seeds began to emerge on the earth during the _______ period.

3. One winter, Appleseed set up a house in a _______ outside Defiance, Ohio where he operated a pair of nurseries.

4. Farmers who plant Bt crops must leave a certain portion of their land for non-Bt crops to provide a ________ for the bugs.

5. The French romantics were said to have experimented with ________ after Napoleon's troops brought it back with them from Egypt.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 238 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample