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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While the potatoes were unable to provide all of the nutrients a person might need, they could get the Vitamin A from ________.
(a) Peppers.
(b) The sun.
(c) Lettuce.
(d) Milk.

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

3. The book suggests that _______ calls to human desire to alter the textures and contents of our consciousness.
(a) Tulips.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Apples.

4. According to the book, some of the most bitter and "bad" plants are the ones that contain the most powerful _______.
(a) Herbs.
(b) Potions.
(c) Magic.
(d) Seeds.

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

6. Lenson points out that many people of the past tried to __________ the use of drugs by calling it imagination.
(a) Sanitize.
(b) Laugh about.
(c) Ignore.
(d) Discourage.

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

8. What is second nature to a gardener, who leans that every advance in his control of the garden is also an invitation for disaster?
(a) Guesses.
(b) Preparations.
(c) Mistakes.
(d) Ironies.

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

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

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

12. Some of the ways children have been known to seek this altered state of consciousness include all of the following except______.
(a) Spinning until violently dizzy.
(b) Deliberately hyperventilating.
(c) Eating processed sugar.
(d) Jumping out of trees.

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

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

15. Tukano Indians in the Amazon noticed Jaguars eating a vine, which was atypical for them and helped the Indians discover ______.
(a) Datura.
(b) Cannabis.
(c) Mistletoe.
(d) Yaje.

Short Answer Questions

1. Until the mid-1970s, most of the marijuana in America was grown in _______ and was often sprayed with a pesticide paraquat.

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

3. An industrial farmer needs to buy an expensive amount of __________, like chemical fertilizers, machinery, fuel, and pesticides.

4. ________, Pollan says, is the theme which unifies the questions being raised in agricultural biotechnology.

5. The scourge of potatoes has always been the _________ potato beetle, which can pick a plant clean of its leaves.

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