The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Michael Pollan
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Michael Pollan
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Fifteen through Chapter Sixteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pollan wants to create a meal in full ________ of the foods involved and how they came to be on his table.
(a) Transparency.
(b) Truth.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Consciousness.

2. Pollan isn't surprised that the ________ doesn't encourage Salatin's farming since he buys almost nothing to support it.
(a) Neighboring farmers.
(b) Big box stores.
(c) Government.
(d) Feed lots.

3. What helps to reduce evaporation in the fields, and help to produce more carbon for the plants in the farm?
(a) Trees.
(b) Cows.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Waters.

4. At the beginning of the food chain is ________, which surprised Pollan when he realized this.
(a) Cows.
(b) Corn.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Flour.

5. Every day, the ________ pens are moved to ensure that the droppings spread evenly.
(a) Chicken.
(b) Cow.
(c) Horse.
(d) Pig.

Short Answer Questions

1. The grass also gets a chance to ________ when the cattle is moved around.

2. What is NOT one of the parts of corn that is separated out in the newly used process?

3. The pastures are filled with native grasses that actually benefit from ____________.

4. By _______, the government became involved in the organic market, as it sought to define what it meant to be organic.

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.

(see the answer key)

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