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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Influence/Speechlessness" – "Pieces of Shit".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many chickens arrive at the slaughterhouse with freshly broken bones as a result of rough treatment and bad genetics?
(a) 40%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 30%.

2. What is the leading cause of death in the U.S.?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Stroke.
(c) Automobile accidents.
(d) Cancer.

3. What question did the author's grandmother ask him when he called to tell her his son had been born?
(a) She asked whether the labor was easy.
(b) She asked if he had hair.
(c) She asked how much he weighed.
(d) She asked what his length was.

4. The author claims that upwards of what percentage of all animals eaten in the U.S. come from factory farms?
(a) 75%.
(b) 65%.
(c) 99%.
(d) 85%.

5. Shrimp trawling accounts for what percentage of global bycatch?
(a) 12%.
(b) 33%.
(c) 56%.
(d) 15%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the word "influenza" originate?

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

3. By what name does the author refer to the USDA inspector at Paradise Locker Meats?

4. Approximately when were chickens domesticated?

5. What was the immediate impetus that led the author to write Eating Animals?

(see the answer key)

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