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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The book states that Johnny Appleseed died in 1845 in _______ Indiana.
(a) Brilliant.
(b) Defiance.
(c) Gary.
(d) Ft. Wayne.

2. Chapman practiced the faith of ______ and was known to launch into sermons when visiting.
(a) Catholocism.
(b) Swedenborgism.
(c) Pessimism.
(d) Protestantism.

3. Chapman stated that he was promised "a true wife in heaven" and thus he never ______.
(a) Had relationships.
(b) Spoke to women.
(c) Married.
(d) Lived at home.

4. According to the book, the tulip is said to have the consciousness of _______, evoking clarity and order.
(a) Zeus.
(b) Apollog.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Venus.

5. ______ orchard has become a kind of museum for several different apple species dedicated to maintaining the diversity.
(a) Ohio.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Mansfied.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a buyer of tulips finished the sale, they were required to pay "wijnkoopsgeld" or ______ money.

2. One winter, Appleseed set up a house in a _______ outside Defiance, Ohio where he operated a pair of nurseries.

3. The number of leaves that are only a tulip are typically _______. With the "turban" top, this gives them the suggesting of a human body.

4. Pollan asserts that due to the use of apple grafts from one generation to the next, the apple population has been made____.

5. According to the book, the plants that form flowers and then encased seeds are known as ______.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the main reason why the apple is presented in a book about the idea of desire? How does the apple relate to desire?

2. Why did Pollan plant tulip bulbs when he was a child, according to his own reflections?

3. Who is John Chapman and what is his importance in the course of the history of the apply?

4. Why does Chapman not want to have anything to do with the grafting of apple trees in order to breed certain strains?

5. Who are some of the groups which roamed the Ohio lands long before Johnny Appleseed was there?

6. What are some of the effects of the chemicals within plants which begin the argument that plants might be designed to change humans?

7. What is the classic example of coevolution that Pollan presents at the start of the book?

8. What are some of the ways in which flowers have been created to attract the attention of humans, according to Pollan?

9. What is the origin of the domesticated apple, although this is certainly a point which is up for contention?

10. Why does Pollan says that he thinks tulips really were flowers which were designed for children?

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