The Botany of Desire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Botany of Desire Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

Michael Pollan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Greeks believed that true beauty was the offspring of form and ecstasy personified in ______ and Apollo.
(a) Pan.
(b) Venus.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Zeus.

2. According to the book, drugs that alter the user's perception of time and space are taboo because they disrupt the _______.
(a) Political order.
(b) Verbal order.
(c) Religious order.
(d) Social order.

3. Pollan asserts that even though daffodils came early in the season, _______ is not a true color for a child.
(a) Purple.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Orange.

4. _______ is an annual convention and harvest fair sponsored by High Times Magazine that attracts many growers.
(a) The Cannabis Cup.
(b) The Cannabis Contest.
(c) The Cannabis Challenge.
(d) The Cannabis Chalice.

5. Dependence on the potato had made the ________ vulnerable to the perils of the economy as well as to those of nature.
(a) Spanish.
(b) Germans.
(c) Irish.
(d) English.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, cannabis is now America's leading _______ with sinsemilla selling for upwards of $500 an ounce.

2. The fact that apple seeds do not produce a similar apple as the tree they came from is scientifically called ______.

3. The book states that one culture's cure all could be another culture's 'root of all evil' also known as ________.

4. Pollan refers to the _____ as the gothic femme fatale in the masculine world of tulips.

5. The early colonists to America in addition to bringing grafts also brought apple seeds to plant called ______.

(see the answer key)

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