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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Pollan not allowed to do with the NewLeaf potatoes at the end of the year, according to the law?
(a) Sell them.
(b) Eat them.
(c) Replant them.
(d) Hide them.

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. The author speculates that in order to transcend the normal day experience, we may need to a single volume of knowledge, which is a natural history of the __________.
(a) Plant world.
(b) Workforce.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Spirit.

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

11. The books suggests that all of the following are successful defenses plants have adopted except _______.
(a) Disable.
(b) Death-dealing toxins.
(c) Confound.
(d) Repel.

12. The _________ in the potato is what causes it to produce its own pest killing chemicals, keeping other chemicals from being necessary.
(a) Gene.
(b) Vitamin.
(c) Genome.
(d) Starch.

13. In the book, Pollan was almost caught by the police for growing a couple of ______ plants on his property.
(a) Poppy.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Datura.
(d) Morning glory.

14. The scourge of potatoes has always been the _________ potato beetle, which can pick a plant clean of its leaves.
(a) Idaho.
(b) Wyoming.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Colorado.

15. 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) Political order.
(c) Religious order.
(d) Social order.

Short Answer Questions

1. A _______ is one that is used for getting cuttings. Like the apples, the result of the impact of this may be detrimental to the species.

2. Antheleme Brillat-Savarin noted, "Tell me what you _______ and I will tell you what you are."

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

4. _______ became a new capital for marijuana cultivation during the American drug war of the nineties.

5. According to the book, some of the most bitter and "bad" plants are the ones that contain the most powerful _______.

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