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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 one culture's cure all could be another culture's 'root of all evil' also known as ________.
(a) Panapathogen.
(b) Pangaia.
(c) Panacea.
(d) Pangea.

2. ______ change the taste of plant flesh on the tongues of certain animals and can render the sweetest fruit sour.
(a) Daturas.
(b) Nicotines.
(c) Anthocyanins.
(d) Flavenoids.

3. Factors restricting the growth of marijuana that indoor gardeners were able to control include the following except _______.
(a) Heat.
(b) Nutrients.
(c) Light.
(d) Disease.

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

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

6. What is the name of the company which makes the genetically modified potato called "NewLeaf"?
(a) Monsanto.
(b) Whole Foods.
(c) Tyson.
(d) Conagra.

7. The book suggests that the decisions that a culture makes in which plants drugs to promote or prohibit help to ______.
(a) Promote instability.
(b) Reinforce cohesion.
(c) Marginalize people.
(d) Make people feel bad.

8. _________ is one example of a chemical which was tested before it was used, only to find that later on it affected other ecosystems.
(a) DDT.
(b) Neem oil.
(c) Bt.
(d) Marigolds.

9. According to the book, some of the most bitter and "bad" plants are the ones that contain the most powerful _______.
(a) Seeds.
(b) Potions.
(c) Herbs.
(d) Magic.

10. ______ is the name given to the state-of-the-art growing regimen that could yield three pounds of sinsemilla in two months' time.
(a) Pool of Green.
(b) Sea of Green.
(c) Ocean of Green.
(d) Lake of Green.

11. Peruvian legend has it that _____ are associated with the discovery of quinine through eating the bark of the cinchona tree.
(a) Pumas.
(b) Jaguars.
(c) Macaws.
(d) Toucans.

12. Potatoes today are descended from the center of _________ in the Andean altiplano, where wild ancestors grew them.
(a) Diversity.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Plain land.
(d) Mountains.

13. When Pollan opened up the package to grow the NewLeaf potatoes, the card stated that he was now ________ to grow the potatoes.
(a) Licensed.
(b) Authorized.
(c) Able.
(d) Legalized.

14. According to the book, some counter strategies to these toxins include all of the following except ______.
(a) Feeding strategies that minimize ingestion.
(b) Drying plants in the sun.
(c) Heightened memory.
(d) Digestive processes that detoxify.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For the first time in history, the __________ of a plant is being domesticated by humans and by the scientific changes of humans.

2. ________, Pollan says, is the theme which unifies the questions being raised in agricultural biotechnology.

3. The book states that although marijuana cultivation is driven to some extent by money, the underlying principle is that of ______.

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

5. Who took to wearing potato flowers in her hair in order to encourage the peasants to grow this plant for themselves?

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