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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gene flow normally occurs between closely related __________, so it seems that the Monsanto varieties will not spawn superweeds.
(a) Lands.
(b) Waters.
(c) Environments.
(d) Species.

2. Who took to wearing potato flowers in her hair in order to encourage the peasants to grow this plant for themselves?
(a) Catherine the Great.
(b) Anne Tyler.
(c) Marie Antoinette.
(d) No one.

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

4. The book states that although marijuana cultivation is driven to some extent by money, the underlying principle is that of ______.
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Horticulture.
(d) Gardening

5. 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) Digestive processes that detoxify.
(d) Heightened memory.

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

7. The arts of _______ are how plants have explored their ingenuity applied to learning and adapting.
(a) Biochemistry.
(b) Tropism.
(c) Physical defenses.
(d) Locomotion.

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

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

10. _______ became a new capital for marijuana cultivation during the American drug war of the nineties.
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Paris.
(d) Berlin.

11. ______ has written two books claiming that consciousness changing is a basic human activity that even children seek out.
(a) Andrew Weil.
(b) Deepak Chopra.
(c) Michael Pollan.
(d) Michael Palin.

12. _________ 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) Bt.
(c) Neem oil.
(d) Marigolds.

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

14. Antheleme Brillat-Savarin noted, "Tell me what you _______ and I will tell you what you are."
(a) Grow.
(b) Eat.
(c) Believe.
(d) Know.

15. For the first time in history, the __________ of a plant is being domesticated by humans and by the scientific changes of humans.
(a) Chemical structure.
(b) Color.
(c) Genome.
(d) Taste.

Short Answer Questions

1. Goats are associated with the discovery of _____, when it was observed they became frisky after eating the red berries.

2. 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.

3. When the ___________ harvest failed in England in 1794, it seems that the poor were not going to be able to buy the bread they needed.

4. Pollan suggests that on a biochemical level, psychoactive plants affect the brain much the way that the following activities except ______ affect it.

5. 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.

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