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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An industrial farmer needs to buy an expensive amount of __________, like chemical fertilizers, machinery, fuel, and pesticides.
(a) Barters.
(b) Side bars.
(c) Inputs.
(d) Loans.

2. The Dutch genius for horticulture leftover from the ________ combined with the influx of new seeds.
(a) Night Queen craze.
(b) Tulip craze.
(c) Rose craze.
(d) Apple craze.

3. Instead of wind and water moving genetic material around, the emerging plants were now enlisting the help of ______.
(a) Animals.
(b) Mold.
(c) Bacteria.
(d) Viruses.

4. __________ was what some people in England used to call the potato, which continued its separation from their diet.
(a) Root meal.
(b) Bread pudding.
(c) Dirt root.
(d) Bread root.

5. The weedy _________ potatoes on the edges of Andean farms caused changes in the strains of potatoes which would grow.
(a) White.
(b) Green.
(c) Dark.
(d) Wild.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, the tulip is said to have the consciousness of _______, evoking clarity and order.

2. Red and Golden are two forms of North American cultivars of this particular type of apple ______.

3. John Chapman had the imagination to identify with the _________ in the ecology of the world.

4. ______, which contains a much higher amount of alcohol than hard cider, could be obtained through freezing.

5. Pollan asserts that Jews and Christians discouraged devotion to flowers because it was a threat to _______.

(see the answer key)

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