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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the president of STOP (Safe Tables Our Priority)?

2. Injured workers at IBP who can't claim worker's comp almost always sign a ________ or risk losing their jobs.

3. Which company required that meatpacking houses slaughter cattle more humanely or lose their business?

4. What is now the favorite drink among Chinese children?

5. What was the name of the cat that died in Bristol, England of a feline variant of mad cow disease?

Short Essay Questions

1. What new production method developed by IBP causes skilled, unionized supermarket butchers to be fired?

2. How do the problems McDonald's is having with expansion resemble those of the British Empire a century ago?

3. According to anthropologist, Yunxiang Yan, what does McDonald's represent for Beijing customers?

4. What is the difference between good E.coli and bad E. coli?

5. How does In-N-Out Burger do business differently than other restaurants?

6. How are most jobs performed in the beef industry and how is it different than the poultry industry?

7. Why is Red Top Restaurant a good place to work?

8. Why is grain-fed beef preferable to grass-fed beef?

9. What is the scariest job performed by the late-night cleaning crew and why?

10. How does World War I destroy the culture of Plauen, Germany?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author compare the appearance of bacterium Escherichia coli O157:H7 to the outbreak of the AIDS virus? Include when each first appeared, its affects on its victims, and how each can lie dormant for years, and what conditions have made it possible for each to thrive.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the sales pitch given to the city of Lexington, Nebraska by IBP to get citizens to allow a slaughterhouse be built there. How was this sales pitch a far cry from the reality that Lexington lives with today?

Essay Topic 3

Describe how the conservative nature of the city of Colorado Springs evolved. Include the historical, political, and religious aspects of the city.

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