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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book states that the presence of flowers is a reliable predictor of future _____ and therefore was important to humans in the past.
(a) Water.
(b) Rain.
(c) Animals.
(d) Food.

2. Appleseed was able to compete with other apple cultivar sales because his trees were ______.
(a) Cheap.
(b) High quality.
(c) Low quality.
(d) Easily accessible.

3. The tulip that Pollan has on his desk, a Queen of Night, has no ______, which he indicates is because it is meant to be visual.
(a) Taste.
(b) Soil.
(c) Scent.
(d) Leaves.

4. The Native Americans that knew Chapman considered him to be a brilliant woodsman and ______.
(a) Hunter.
(b) Guide.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Medicine man.

5. The book states that before flowers there was no connection between the way things looked and ______.
(a) Their function.
(b) Desire.
(c) Reproduction.
(d) Suvival.

6. 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 Temperance Union.
(b) The Women's Christian Plant Union.
(c) The Women's Christian Abstinence Union.
(d) The Women's Christian Union.

7. The book suggests that the Ottoman ideal of tulip beauty was elegant, sharp, and ________.
(a) Masculine.
(b) Many-colored.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Feminine.

8. ______ is the most widely cultivated fruit and has been put into religious stories including that of Adam and Eve.
(a) Peach.
(b) Apple.
(c) Potato.
(d) Banana.

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

10. Teaching men how to ferment the juice of the grape, ______ had brought civilization the gift of wine.
(a) Venus.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Zeus.

11. Chapman was credited for introducing 'Johnny weed' or ________, to the state of Ohio.
(a) Mayweed.
(b) Stinking fennel.
(c) Wormwood.
(d) Sweet fennel.

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

13. The book states that certain flowers are reminiscent of Greek Gods. The rose and the peony are stated to be flowers of ______.
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Venus.

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

15. Chapman planted 'Johnny weed' because he thought that it would prevent the contraction of ______.
(a) Polio.
(b) Hayfever.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Malaria.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the book, there are ______ plants that have shaped human existence at least as much as human's have affected these plants.

2. The process through which humans and plants have shaped each other over the years is known as _______.

3. The book states that before the evolution of flowers, life existed in a much _______ world.

4. _______ or 'white lightning' preceded hard cider as the alcohol containing drink of choice on the frontier.

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

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