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

Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Study.
(b) School.
(c) Refuge.
(d) Trap.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. The _________ in the potato is what causes it to produce its own pest killing chemicals, keeping other chemicals from being necessary.
(a) Starch.
(b) Gene.
(c) Genome.
(d) Vitamin.

9. For the first time in history, the __________ of a plant is being domesticated by humans and by the scientific changes of humans.
(a) Taste.
(b) Color.
(c) Chemical structure.
(d) Genome.

10. A growing technique which requires few tools and and a minimal amount of labor is called a ___________.
(a) Sleepy bed.
(b) Easy bed.
(c) Lazy bed.
(d) True bed.

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

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

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

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

15. What kind of storm took place in December of 1999, causing the gardens of Versailles to be ruined?
(a) Windstorm.
(b) Flood.
(c) Snow storm.
(d) Tornado.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nature, Pollan admits, seems to be filled with ___________, making the growth process nearly impossible to control.

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

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

5. The book states that the effect of making pot illegal was that the counterculture engaged in _______the plant.

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