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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another word for slaughterhouse that the author uses in the book?
(a) Abattoir.
(b) Oubliette.
(c) Cornet.
(d) Crux.

2. Whom does the author claim said that quitting smoking is among the easiest things one can do?
(a) Ernest Hemingway.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Tom Robbins.
(d) Mark Twain.

3. What was the first major national newspaper to editorialize against factory farming as a whole, according to the author in the book's conclusion?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The San Francisco Gate.

4. How long (at the time of the book's publication) has it been since the last pandemic?
(a) About 16 years.
(b) Over 50 years.
(c) Over 40 years.
(d) About 25 years.

5. The author asserts that on Thanksgiving, we are not celebrating America but what?
(a) History.
(b) Persistence.
(c) Freedom.
(d) American ideals.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, the Pilgrims were not even a feature of Thanksgiving until when?

2. The author asserts that Thanksgiving turkey is the flesh of competing instincts. What are those instincts?

3. The author notes in "The Truth About Eating Animals" that when Temple Grandin first began to quantify the scale of abuse in slaughterhouses, she reported witnessing deliberate acts of cruelty on a regular basis in what percentage of the plants surveyed?

4. Americans eat how many times more chickens than they did 80 years ago?

5. What percentage of American households have at least one pet?

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