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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Mother plant.
(b) Brother plant.
(c) Father plant.
(d) Sister plant.

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

5. ____________ 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.

6. Some Christians believed that potato was the _________ matter, while bread was antimatter and even spirit in nature.
(a) Hell.
(b) Base.
(c) Lower.
(d) Dirt.

7. 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) Reward.
(b) Response.
(c) Alert.
(d) Failure.

8. According to the book, drugs that alter the user's perception of time and space are taboo because they disrupt the _______.
(a) Religious order.
(b) Social order.
(c) Political order.
(d) Verbal order.

9. Goats are associated with the discovery of _____, when it was observed they became frisky after eating the red berries.
(a) Tea.
(b) Mistletoe.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Coffee.

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

15. Some of the farmers who grow potatoes are happy with Monsanto since this means they can skip a few _________, which saves them money.
(a) Seasons.
(b) Sprayings.
(c) Waterings.
(d) Deadlines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Pollan suggests that drugs have both positive and negative qualities. The wine of _______ was both a scourge and a blessing.

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.

4. Andrew Weil has referred to marijuana as an _____________ when taking account of the phenomenon.

5. The arts of _______ are how plants have explored their ingenuity applied to learning and adapting.

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