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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of storm took place in December of 1999, causing the gardens of Versailles to be ruined?
(a) Tornado.
(b) Windstorm.
(c) Flood.
(d) Snow storm.

2. What needs to be kept artificially high in the clean rooms in order to keep other microbes out?
(a) Fans.
(b) Room temp.
(c) Light.
(d) Air pressure.

3. The consensus in Holland was that the tulip ______ was the most beautiful flower in the world and a masterpiece.
(a) Black Dahlia.
(b) Semper Augustus.
(c) Queen of Darkness.
(d) Queen of Night.

4. Johnny Appleseed was known to use a _________ in order to transport his seeds across the water.
(a) Mule.
(b) Two-hulled canoe.
(c) Single-hulled canoe.
(d) Row boat.

5. Apples were the only avenue early settlers had for obtaining ______, which the Native Americans obtained from Maples.
(a) Sugar.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Vitamin D.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. ______ is a sign of health in creatures since mutations and disease can easily disrupt it.

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

4. ______ is the unit of money used in Holland. After 1635, the price of a bulb of Switzers went from 60 to 1500.

5. Certain drugs, Pollan states, will cause objects around us to change until they appear as the _________ versions of themselves.

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