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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. _______ is an annual convention and harvest fair sponsored by High Times Magazine that attracts many growers.
(a) The Cannabis Cup.
(b) The Cannabis Chalice.
(c) The Cannabis Challenge.
(d) The Cannabis Contest.

4. 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) Yaje.
(d) Mistletoe.

5. What is a good place to experiment and a place to try out new plants and techniques without having to risk a lot?
(a) Garden.
(b) Scientific lab.
(c) Flower pot.
(d) School.

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

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

8. Peruvian legend has it that _____ are associated with the discovery of quinine through eating the bark of the cinchona tree.
(a) Jaguars.
(b) Macaws.
(c) Pumas.
(d) Toucans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. __________ was what some people in England used to call the potato, which continued its separation from their diet.

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

3. According to the book, _____ are the only people on Earth who do not have a practice of using psychoactive plants to change consciousness.

4. ______ is the name given to the state-of-the-art growing regimen that could yield three pounds of sinsemilla in two months' time.

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

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