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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Words/Meaning" – "Hiding/Seeking".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the immediate impetus that led the author to write Eating Animals?
(a) His father's death.
(b) His second marriage.
(c) Becoming a father.
(d) His promotion to health director.

2. What were the author's grandmother's first words upon seeing his son?
(a) "My love."
(b) "My child."
(c) "Praise God."
(d) "My revenge."

3. What did the author's grandmother describe filling her pants with when she was young during the war?
(a) Carrots.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Turnips.
(d) Peas.

4. Through what war did the author's grandmother barely survive?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Korean War.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author's grandmother's family always eat for Shabbat?

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

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

4. About how many species of animals are housed at the Berlin zoo?

5. The author claims in "George" that no one ever had a plush toy shaped like what?

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