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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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.
(a) Corn.
(b) Rice.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Bran.

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

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

6. 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) Taste.
(d) Genome.

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

8. The book suggests that gardens used to be planted as a kind of living _____ that cared little for aesthetics.
(a) Display of beauty.
(b) Apothecary.
(c) Art form.
(d) Mandala.

9. John Chapman had the imagination to identify with the _________ in the ecology of the world.
(a) Tulips.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Bees.
(d) Flowers.

10. The ___________ can serve as a sort of DNA fingerprint if a person wants to determine if a plant is a Monsanto plant.
(a) Coloring.
(b) Temperature.
(c) Marker gene.
(d) Cell structure.

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

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

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

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

15. ______ 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. ____________ were the ones who seized land from the Irish, causing them to have meager plots of arable land on which to grow.

3. What kind of storm took place in December of 1999, causing the gardens of Versailles to be ruined?

4. According to the book, cannabis is now America's leading _______ with sinsemilla selling for upwards of $500 an ounce.

5. When Pollan opened up the package to grow the NewLeaf potatoes, the card stated that he was now ________ to grow the potatoes.

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