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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Feminine.
(b) Masculine.
(c) Androgynous.
(d) Pathetic.

2. Flowers are unable to choose ______ and therefore must rely on extravagant displays to attract insects.
(a) Climate.
(b) Soil.
(c) Weather.
(d) Mates.

3. The plants that have contributed to the shaping of human existence include all of the following except _______.
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Rose.
(c) Apple.
(d) Potato.

4. ______ is the unit of money used in Holland. After 1635, the price of a bulb of Switzers went from 60 to 1500.
(a) Dollars.
(b) Guilders.
(c) Marks.
(d) Euros.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ is the tulip grower's term for the phenomenon that causes certain flowers in a field to revert to the form and color of their parent.

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

3. According to the book, the word _____ is a corruption of the Turkish word for Turban.

4. Pollan says that he would call the images of nature and of growing to be the Agricultural ___________, if he did not think it sounded like too much of an oxymoron.

5. Johnny Appleseed was opposed to using _____ in order to grow trees and preferred planting seeds.

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