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

2. According to the book, _____ are the only people on Earth who do not have a practice of using psychoactive plants to change consciousness.
(a) Africans.
(b) Eskimos.
(c) Australians.
(d) Icelandic people.

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

4. ________, Pollan believes, is brutally reductive, simplifying nature's incomprehensible complexity to something humanly manageable.
(a) Science.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Agriculture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A growing technique which requires few tools and and a minimal amount of labor is called a ___________.

2. The ___________ can serve as a sort of DNA fingerprint if a person wants to determine if a plant is a Monsanto plant.

3. The French romantics were said to have experimented with ________ after Napoleon's troops brought it back with them from Egypt.

4. What is the name of the company which makes the genetically modified potato called "NewLeaf"?

5. Dependence on the potato had made the ________ vulnerable to the perils of the economy as well as to those of nature.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Heath avoid the purchases of many inputs on his farm so that he can save money?

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

4. What did Heath have to say about Pollan's question about pest resistance to the chemicals the potatoes are designed to produce?

5. What is the rationale that Pollan gives for growing pot as he decides to do when it is not as much of a legal issue?

6. What is the status of marijuana use and growing in Amsterdam, according to Pollan in his book?

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

8. What might have happened if the police chief had seen the marijuana plant in Pollan's backyard?

9. As the various lands in Europe began to rely on the potato, what were the positive benefits of this situation?

10. What were the dangers of the potato, according to Malthus during the time of the rise of the potato?

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