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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. American hippies sometimes traveled the _______ in Afghanistan and returned with seeds of Cannabis Indica.
(a) The Hashish Trail.
(b) The Bud Trail.
(c) The Indica Trail.
(d) The Hemp Trail.

5. Pollan suggests that drugs have both positive and negative qualities. The wine of _______ was both a scourge and a blessing.
(a) Apollo.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Venus.

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

7. According to the book, _____ are the only people on Earth who do not have a practice of using psychoactive plants to change consciousness.
(a) Africans.
(b) Eskimos.
(c) Icelandic people.
(d) Australians.

8. ______ 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) Lake of Green.
(c) Ocean of Green.
(d) Sea of Green.

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

10. Until the mid-1970s, most of the marijuana in America was grown in _______ and was often sprayed with a pesticide paraquat.
(a) Mexico.
(b) America.
(c) Canada.
(d) Peru.

11. 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) Gardening
(d) Horticulture.

12. Genetic ____________ is the catchall term used to describe the various unexpected effects that misplaced or unregulated foreign genes can have in an environment.
(a) Variance.
(b) Instability.
(c) Regulation.
(d) Code.

13. The reasons why potatoes did not become popular in Europe at first was because they were thought to cause _________ and immorality.
(a) Measles.
(b) Leprosy.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Malaria.

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

15. 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.
(a) Alert.
(b) Response.
(c) Reward.
(d) Failure.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Dutch genius for horticulture leftover from the ________ combined with the influx of new seeds.

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

3. Darwin in his original book about the origin of species was adamant that man does not introduce or produce _____________.

4. What needs to be kept artificially high in the clean rooms in order to keep other microbes out?

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

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