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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Preparations.
(b) Ironies.
(c) Guesses.
(d) Mistakes.

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

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

4. The French romantics were said to have experimented with ________ after Napoleon's troops brought it back with them from Egypt.
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Speed.
(d) Opium.

5. 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) Cell structure.
(d) Marker gene.

6. Certain drugs, Pollan states, will cause objects around us to change until they appear as the _________ versions of themselves.
(a) Enjoyable.
(b) Ideal.
(c) Glowing.
(d) Opposite.

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

8. Farmers who plant Bt crops must leave a certain portion of their land for non-Bt crops to provide a ________ for the bugs.
(a) Trap.
(b) Refuge.
(c) Study.
(d) School.

9. According to the book, cannabis is now America's leading _______ with sinsemilla selling for upwards of $500 an ounce.
(a) Cash crop.
(b) Economic problem.
(c) Export.
(d) Import.

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

11. Andrew Weil has referred to marijuana as an _____________ when taking account of the phenomenon.
(a) Active placebo.
(b) Idiotic choice.
(c) Inane drug.
(d) Insane mind game.

12. What sort of potato was developed by the Incan people and just one of the many potatoes which used to grow?
(a) Blue.
(b) Striped.
(c) Spotted.
(d) Gold.

13. Potatoes today are descended from the center of _________ in the Andean altiplano, where wild ancestors grew them.
(a) Plain land.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Diversity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to reduce time and energy spent on growing male sinsemilla plants which are useless, growers started ______.

2. Psychoactive drugs serve as bridges between the worlds of matter and spirit, or in modern language _______and consciousness.

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

4. Genetic ____________ is the catchall term used to describe the various unexpected effects that misplaced or unregulated foreign genes can have in an environment.

5. 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 __________.

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