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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight through Chapter Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The pastures are filled with native grasses that actually benefit from ____________.
(a) Fertilizers.
(b) Grazing.
(c) Mowing.
(d) Organic yogurt.

2. _________ Farm started out as a small farm that sold pre-bagged salad mix, according to the book.
(a) Earthville.
(b) Earthbound.
(c) Waterworks.
(d) Greenworks.

3. The farm and the human are two ________ natural systems that the food industry relies on.
(a) Complicated.
(b) Imperfect.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Malleable.

4. Salatin is a strong believer in farming in line with one's ___________, as seen in a phone call with Pollan.
(a) Horses.
(b) Season cycle.
(c) Family.
(d) World view.

5. What does Naylor avoid when he is growing his crop on his farm?
(a) Subsidies.
(b) Water.
(c) Government help.
(d) GMOs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Corn is also able to limit the ______ lost during the process of photosynthesis, according to the book.

2. Salatin points out that being ________ doesn't necessarily mean that a farm is also going to be sustainable.

3. As the food companies produced more corn, they create more _________ as it is cheaper than sugar.

4. Salatin pushes for the right to opt out of ____________ of his farm, according to the book.

5. Synthetic _______, invented by Fritz Haber as a side effect of his work on bombs in Germany, meant that crops could be grown without care about the amount of this substance on the Earth.

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