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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the company which makes the genetically modified potato called "NewLeaf"?
(a) Monsanto.
(b) Whole Foods.
(c) Conagra.
(d) Tyson.

2. Red and Golden are two forms of North American cultivars of this particular type of apple ______.
(a) Tasty.
(b) Amazing.
(c) Juicy.
(d) Delicious.

3. Pollan asserts that even though daffodils came early in the season, _______ is not a true color for a child.
(a) Orange.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Purple.

4. Pollan believes that the idea of planting and of growing plants causes humans to be filled with a sense of _________.
(a) Honor.
(b) Power.
(c) Peace.
(d) Humility.

5. The book suggests that deep down, many gardeners see themselves as ________ transforming compost, water, and light into beauty.
(a) Alchemists.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Herbalists.
(d) Spiritualists.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, _____ are the only people on Earth who do not have a practice of using psychoactive plants to change consciousness.

2. 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.

3. The book suggests that the decisions that a culture makes in which plants drugs to promote or prohibit help to ______.

4. Lenson points out that many people of the past tried to __________ the use of drugs by calling it imagination.

5. The book states that the effect of making pot illegal was that the counterculture engaged in _______the plant.

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