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The Botany of Desire Quiz

Michael Pollan
This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Botany of Desire.
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The Botany of Desire Quiz

Michael Pollan
This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Botany of Desire.

Take our free The Botany of Desire quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Pollan suggests that on a biochemical level, psychoactive plants affect the brain much the way that the following activities except ______ affect it. (from Chapter 3)

2.

Into what kind of plant have plant breeders inserted a gene from a firefly, making the plants glow, although for no apparent reason, according to Pollan? (from Chapter 4)

3.

The book suggests that _____ determined the evolution of the flower by valuing 'broken' strains that were sick. (from Chapter 2)

4.

The weedy _________ potatoes on the edges of Andean farms caused changes in the strains of potatoes which would grow. (from Chapter 4)

5.

According to the book, drugs that alter the user's perception of time and space are taboo because they disrupt the _______. (from Chapter 3)

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