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

2. Some of the ways children have been known to seek this altered state of consciousness include all of the following except______.
(a) Jumping out of trees.
(b) Deliberately hyperventilating.
(c) Spinning until violently dizzy.
(d) Eating processed sugar.

3. The book suggests that the decisions that a culture makes in which plants drugs to promote or prohibit help to ______.
(a) Make people feel bad.
(b) Reinforce cohesion.
(c) Promote instability.
(d) Marginalize people.

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

5. The Dutch genius for horticulture leftover from the ________ combined with the influx of new seeds.
(a) Tulip craze.
(b) Apple craze.
(c) Night Queen craze.
(d) Rose craze.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where are the Monsanto headquarters located, according to Pollan's description in the book?

4. Gene flow normally occurs between closely related __________, so it seems that the Monsanto varieties will not spawn superweeds.

5. A _______ is one that is used for getting cuttings. Like the apples, the result of the impact of this may be detrimental to the species.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does genetic engineering promise to do for the crops which are growing with these modifications?

2. After a few days of drenching rain, what did the NewLeaf potato plants look like in Pollan's garden?

3. What are some of the intoxicants and ingredients for intoxicants which Pollan admits to growing in his garden now?

4. What happens to the animal in the wild who decides to eat hallucinogens and thus takes in the toxins of these plants?

5. Describe the NewLeaf potatoes that Pollan took in order to grow at his garden.

6. What parts of the marijuana plant are supposed to be smoked?

7. Why were the Irish open to farming the potato in order to provide food for themselves?

8. What was going on at the time of Pollan's visit to Amsterdam for research for this book?

9. Why are cats so drawn to catnip, according to the research that Pollan does after seeing how his cat response to using this herb?

10. What causes the Great Potato Famine and the many deaths over the area of Europe?

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