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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One way to look at ___________ engineering is to think that it allows humans to insert their intelligence into a crop.
(a) Weather.
(b) Equipment.
(c) Genetic.
(d) Farmer.

2. Lenson points out that many people of the past tried to __________ the use of drugs by calling it imagination.
(a) Ignore.
(b) Sanitize.
(c) Discourage.
(d) Laugh about.

3. Some Christians believed that potato was the _________ matter, while bread was antimatter and even spirit in nature.
(a) Lower.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Hell.
(d) Base.

4. 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.
(a) Truth.
(b) Sublime.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Understanding.

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) English.
(d) Irish.

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

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

8. Tukano Indians in the Amazon noticed Jaguars eating a vine, which was atypical for them and helped the Indians discover ______.
(a) Datura.
(b) Cannabis.
(c) Yaje.
(d) Mistletoe.

9. The French romantics were said to have experimented with ________ after Napoleon's troops brought it back with them from Egypt.
(a) Opium.
(b) Speed.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Cocaine.

10. The book suggests that deep down, many gardeners see themselves as ________ transforming compost, water, and light into beauty.
(a) Scientists.
(b) Spiritualists.
(c) Herbalists.
(d) Alchemists.

11. John Chapman had the imagination to identify with the _________ in the ecology of the world.
(a) Flowers.
(b) Bees.
(c) Tulips.
(d) Potatoes.

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

13. In order to reduce time and energy spent on growing male sinsemilla plants which are useless, growers started ______.
(a) Using different seeds.
(b) Changing the light patterns.
(c) Killing male plants.
(d) Using clones.

14. Pollan believes that the idea of planting and of growing plants causes humans to be filled with a sense of _________.
(a) Honor.
(b) Humility.
(c) Power.
(d) Peace.

15. The book suggests that _______ calls to human desire to alter the textures and contents of our consciousness.
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Tulips.
(c) Apples.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ is an annual convention and harvest fair sponsored by High Times Magazine that attracts many growers.

2. Dave Hjelle from Monstanto tells Pollan something that makes him a little concerned. He says, "______________."

3. The ___________ can serve as a sort of DNA fingerprint if a person wants to determine if a plant is a Monsanto plant.

4. According to the book, drugs that alter the user's perception of time and space are taboo because they disrupt the _______.

5. 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.

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