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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Johnny Appleseed was opposed to using _____ in order to grow trees and preferred planting seeds.
(a) Cuttings.
(b) Genetic engineering.
(c) Roots.
(d) Leaves.

2. Since Appleseed raised his trees from seed, most of the fruit was not suitable for _______.
(a) Making cider.
(b) Composting.
(c) Eating.
(d) Selling.

3. According to the book, cannabis is now America's leading _______ with sinsemilla selling for upwards of $500 an ounce.
(a) Export.
(b) Cash crop.
(c) Economic problem.
(d) Import.

4. According to the book, some counter strategies to these toxins include all of the following except ______.
(a) Feeding strategies that minimize ingestion.
(b) Drying plants in the sun.
(c) Digestive processes that detoxify.
(d) Heightened memory.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Some Christians believed that potato was the _________ matter, while bread was antimatter and even spirit in nature.

3. Pollan asserts that due to the use of apple grafts from one generation to the next, the apple population has been made____.

4. The Native Americans that knew Chapman considered him to be a brilliant woodsman and ______.

5. In the book, Johnny Appleseed was called a benign _________ of the American Fronteir.

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