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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. One way to look at ___________ engineering is to think that it allows humans to insert their intelligence into a crop.
(a) Farmer.
(b) Equipment.
(c) Genetic.
(d) Weather.

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

3. John Chapman had the imagination to identify with the _________ in the ecology of the world.
(a) Tulips.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Bees.
(d) Potatoes.

4. What needs to be kept artificially high in the clean rooms in order to keep other microbes out?
(a) Light.
(b) Room temp.
(c) Fans.
(d) Air pressure.

5. ________, Pollan says, is the theme which unifies the questions being raised in agricultural biotechnology.
(a) Truth.
(b) Appeal.
(c) Effectiveness.
(d) Uncertainty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan says that he would call the images of nature and of growing to be the Agricultural ___________, if he did not think it sounded like too much of an oxymoron.

2. The book states that although marijuana cultivation is driven to some extent by money, the underlying principle is that of ______.

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

4. Psychoactive drugs serve as bridges between the worlds of matter and spirit, or in modern language _______and consciousness.

5. Andrew Weil has referred to marijuana as an _____________ when taking account of the phenomenon.

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was marijuana primarily grown up until the early 1980s when the war on drugs began?

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

3. What are the various ingredients which might be used in witches' spells?

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

5. How does one begin to grow potatoes, according to Pollan in the book?

6. Describe the experience Pollan had when the police almost found his large marijuana plants in his backyard?

7. What are some of the reasons why potatoes were not very popular in Europe around the late 1500s?

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

9. 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?

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

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