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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who famously argued that the existence of slaughterhouses and battlefields is linked?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Dr. Aaron Gross.
(c) Sir Keith Thomas.
(d) Charles Vantress.

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

3. Where did Bill Niman grow up working at the family grocery store?
(a) Minneapolis.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

4. When was the polar bear Knut born?
(a) March 12, 1999.
(b) December 5, 2006.
(c) September 3, 2003.
(d) July 7, 2007.

5. The author asserts that in his family's tradition, food serves two purposes. It nourishes and it does what?
(a) Calms the soul.
(b) It helps you remember.
(c) Gives you groundedness.
(d) Soothes weary spirits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shrimp trawling accounts for what percentage of global bycatch?

2. What British naturalist wrote of a pig who could open gates in 1789?

3. What question did the author's grandmother ask him when he called to tell her his son had been born?

4. How old does the author say he was when his family fostered a cousin's dog and he kicked it?

5. What word from the text refers to the urge to project human experience onto other animals?

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