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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The arts of _______ are how plants have explored their ingenuity applied to learning and adapting.
(a) Physical defenses.
(b) Locomotion.
(c) Biochemistry.
(d) Tropism.

2. Andrew Weil has referred to marijuana as an _____________ when taking account of the phenomenon.
(a) Idiotic choice.
(b) Inane drug.
(c) Insane mind game.
(d) Active placebo.

3. The concept of the apple being a healthy and wholesome fruit was dreamed up to fight the negative image from ______.
(a) The Women's Christian Plant Union.
(b) The Women's Christian Union.
(c) The Women's Christian Temperance Union.
(d) The Women's Christian Abstinence Union.

4. The book suggests that the decisions that a culture makes in which plants drugs to promote or prohibit help to ______.
(a) Make people feel bad.
(b) Reinforce cohesion.
(c) Marginalize people.
(d) Promote instability.

5. Psychoactive drugs serve as bridges between the worlds of matter and spirit, or in modern language _______and consciousness.
(a) Geology.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Astronomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan suggests that on a biochemical level, psychoactive plants affect the brain much the way that the following activities except ______ affect it.

2. The book suggests that colors and symmetries are elemental principles of ______.

3. Antheleme Brillat-Savarin noted, "Tell me what you _______ and I will tell you what you are."

4. According to the book, the human penchant for drugs has allowed people to trip the brain's ______ system washing the brain in 'feel good' chemicals.

5. The book states that all of the following are capable of prodigies or of shifting themselves in form except _______.

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