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

Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Sister plant.
(b) Mother plant.
(c) Brother plant.
(d) Father plant.

2. 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.
(a) Sublime.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Truth.

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

4. Where are the Monsanto headquarters located, according to Pollan's description in the book?
(a) Chicago.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) New York.
(d) Ausin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. ________, Pollan says, is the theme which unifies the questions being raised in agricultural biotechnology.
(a) Uncertainty.
(b) Effectiveness.
(c) Appeal.
(d) Truth.

13. 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) Spirit.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Plant world.
(d) Workforce.

14. Darwin in his original book about the origin of species was adamant that man does not introduce or produce _____________.
(a) The same breed.
(b) Fertilizer.
(c) Variability.
(d) Genetically modified plants.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Farmers who plant Bt crops must leave a certain portion of their land for non-Bt crops to provide a ________ for the bugs.

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

3. In the book, Pollan was almost caught by the police for growing a couple of ______ plants on his property.

4. Certain drugs, Pollan states, will cause objects around us to change until they appear as the _________ versions of themselves.

5. Potatoes today are descended from the center of _________ in the Andean altiplano, where wild ancestors grew them.

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