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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 second nature to a gardener, who leans that every advance in his control of the garden is also an invitation for disaster?
(a) Mistakes.
(b) Guesses.
(c) Preparations.
(d) Ironies.

2. ______ is a sign of health in creatures since mutations and disease can easily disrupt it.
(a) Symmetry.
(b) Size.
(c) Color.
(d) Asymmetry.

3. In the book, Johnny Appleseed was called a benign _________ of the American Fronteir.
(a) Saint Phillip.
(b) Saint Thomas.
(c) Saint Francis.
(d) Saint Augustine.

4. ________, Pollan believes, is brutally reductive, simplifying nature's incomprehensible complexity to something humanly manageable.
(a) Science.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Sociology.

5. Pollan suggests that drugs have both positive and negative qualities. The wine of _______ was both a scourge and a blessing.
(a) Apollo.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Venus.

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ were the ones who seized land from the Irish, causing them to have meager plots of arable land on which to grow.

2. When a buyer of tulips finished the sale, they were required to pay "wijnkoopsgeld" or ______ money.

3. Johnny Appleseed is generally acknowledged as having planted _______ of apple seeds across a wide range of orchards.

4. The book suggests that deep down, many gardeners see themselves as ________ transforming compost, water, and light into beauty.

5. Potatoes today are descended from the center of _________ in the Andean altiplano, where wild ancestors grew them.

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