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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The new potato called "NewLeaf" has been genetically engineered in order to produce its own ______________.
(a) Water.
(b) Peel.
(c) Food.
(d) Insecticide.

2. 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) Marker gene.
(c) Temperature.
(d) Cell structure.

3. An industrial farmer needs to buy an expensive amount of __________, like chemical fertilizers, machinery, fuel, and pesticides.
(a) Inputs.
(b) Loans.
(c) Barters.
(d) Side bars.

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

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

6. Gene flow normally occurs between closely related __________, so it seems that the Monsanto varieties will not spawn superweeds.
(a) Environments.
(b) Species.
(c) Waters.
(d) Lands.

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

8. Until the mid-1970s, most of the marijuana in America was grown in _______ and was often sprayed with a pesticide paraquat.
(a) America.
(b) Canada.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Peru.

9. The weedy _________ potatoes on the edges of Andean farms caused changes in the strains of potatoes which would grow.
(a) Wild.
(b) Green.
(c) Dark.
(d) White.

10. _______ became a new capital for marijuana cultivation during the American drug war of the nineties.
(a) Paris.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Amsterdam.

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

12. What is the name of the company which makes the genetically modified potato called "NewLeaf"?
(a) Conagra.
(b) Whole Foods.
(c) Tyson.
(d) Monsanto.

13. 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.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________, Pollan believes, is brutally reductive, simplifying nature's incomprehensible complexity to something humanly manageable.

2. Who took to wearing potato flowers in her hair in order to encourage the peasants to grow this plant for themselves?

3. Goats are associated with the discovery of _____, when it was observed they became frisky after eating the red berries.

4. The _________ in the potato is what causes it to produce its own pest killing chemicals, keeping other chemicals from being necessary.

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

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