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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Pollan asserts that due to the use of apple grafts from one generation to the next, the apple population has been made____.
(a) More nutritious.
(b) Weak.
(c) More wholesome.
(d) Strong.

4. Apple trees are able to reproduce _______ which helps to facilitate their ability to be grafted to a root stock.
(a) Sexually.
(b) Daily.
(c) Asexually.
(d) Periodically.

5. The book states that all of the following are capable of prodigies or of shifting themselves in form except _______.
(a) Lotus.
(b) Tulip.
(c) Rose.
(d) Orchid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Goats are associated with the discovery of _____, when it was observed they became frisky after eating the red berries.

2. The flower that is presented as being the symbol of the human desire for beauty is the ______.

3. Genetic ____________ is the catchall term used to describe the various unexpected effects that misplaced or unregulated foreign genes can have in an environment.

4. __________ was what some people in England used to call the potato, which continued its separation from their diet.

5. An industrial farmer needs to buy an expensive amount of __________, like chemical fertilizers, machinery, fuel, and pesticides.

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