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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the book, cannabis is now America's leading _______ with sinsemilla selling for upwards of $500 an ounce.
(a) Import.
(b) Economic problem.
(c) Export.
(d) Cash crop.

2. A growing technique which requires few tools and and a minimal amount of labor is called a ___________.
(a) True bed.
(b) Lazy bed.
(c) Easy bed.
(d) Sleepy bed.

3. Pigeons are associated with the discovery of ______ because of their spacing out behavior after eating the seeds.
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Mistletoe.
(c) Datura.
(d) Cannabis.

4. Certain drugs, Pollan states, will cause objects around us to change until they appear as the _________ versions of themselves.
(a) Enjoyable.
(b) Glowing.
(c) Ideal.
(d) Opposite.

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

6. Nature, Pollan admits, seems to be filled with ___________, making the growth process nearly impossible to control.
(a) Pests.
(b) Rules.
(c) Seasons.
(d) Variables.

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

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

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

10. ________, Pollan believes, is brutally reductive, simplifying nature's incomprehensible complexity to something humanly manageable.
(a) Science.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Chemistry.

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

12. ____________ were the ones who seized land from the Irish, causing them to have meager plots of arable land on which to grow.
(a) Roundheads.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Spanish.
(d) English Celts.

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

14. _______ are substances studied by ethnobotanists and refer to "the god within."
(a) Hallucinogens.
(b) Entheogens.
(c) Carcinogens.
(d) Pathogens.

15. The book states that the effect of making pot illegal was that the counterculture engaged in _______the plant.
(a) Killing.
(b) Genetically modifying.
(c) Destroying.
(d) Weakening.

Short Answer Questions

1. Potatoes today are descended from the center of _________ in the Andean altiplano, where wild ancestors grew them.

2. The weedy _________ potatoes on the edges of Andean farms caused changes in the strains of potatoes which would grow.

3. __________ was what some people in England used to call the potato, which continued its separation from their diet.

4. Pollan suggests that drugs have both positive and negative qualities. The wine of _______ was both a scourge and a blessing.

5. What is a good place to experiment and a place to try out new plants and techniques without having to risk a lot?

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