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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Storytelling".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of meat did the farmer bring to the author's grandmother when she was starving at the end of the war?
(a) Lamb.
(b) Pork.
(c) Beef.
(d) Chicken.

2. How much grain and corn are used per year in animal agriculture?
(a) 464 million tons.
(b) 126 million tons.
(c) 923 million tons.
(d) 756 million tons.

3. About how many animals are housed at the Berlin zoo today?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 12,000.

4. How many more times in volume of greenhouse gases do omnivores contribute than vegans?
(a) Five times the volume.
(b) Three times the volume.
(c) Two times the volume.
(d) Seven times the volume.

5. Whose provocative review of The Omnivore's Dilemma is cited in the text?
(a) James Anderson's.
(b) R. K. Pachauri's.
(c) B. R. Myers's.
(d) Dr. Aaron Gross's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "H" stand for when naming viruses such as H1 and H3?

2. Why would the author's grandmother not eat the meat that was brought to her by the farmer at the end of the war?

3. How many animals at the Berlin zoo survived the Allied air raids in 1942?

4. What was the first major national newspaper to editorialize against factory farming as a whole, according to the author in the book's conclusion?

5. What disease killed Lam Hoi-ka?

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