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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most eaten fish in the United States?
(a) Mackeral.
(b) Trout.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Tuna.

2. What does CFE stand for?
(a) Concentrated Farming Entities.
(b) Common Farming Entities.
(c) Concentrated Field Expert.
(d) Common Farming Exemptions.

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

4. How large is the Farm Sanctuary extension that was founded in northern California?
(a) 200 acres.
(b) 300 acres.
(c) 100 acres.
(d) 50 acres.

5. To what topic does the author compare that of eating animals in "Eating Animals"?
(a) Religion.
(b) Music.
(c) Abortion.
(d) Politics.

6. What animal scientist evaluated the cognitive abilities of pigs by training them to play a video game?
(a) Dr. Stanley Curtis.
(b) Dr. Frank Reese.
(c) Dr. Lesley Rogers.
(d) Dr. Keith Thomas.

7. What word does the author define as the valuing of emotions over reality?
(a) Trepidity.
(b) Incongruity.
(c) Articulation.
(d) Sentimentality.

8. What kind of bread does the author recall eating at his grandmother's house every weekend as a child?
(a) Pita.
(b) Pumpernickel.
(c) Challah.
(d) Dutch Crunch.

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

10. By what title does the author refer to his grandmother?
(a) The Greatest Chef Who Ever Lived.
(b) The Woman in the Chef's Hat.
(c) The Greatest Grandma Ever.
(d) The Savior of the Kitchen.

11. How long did the sheep live that the founder of Farm Sanctuary saved from a downer pile at the Lancaster stockyard?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 10 weeks.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 2 years.

12. Who is the author of Man and the Natural World?
(a) Sir Charles Andrews.
(b) William Ross Warren.
(c) Sir Keith Thomas.
(d) Andrew Stevenson.

13. What did the author's grandmother's family have every Friday to eat?
(a) Muffins.
(b) Mashed potatoes.
(c) Ice cream sundaes.
(d) Pancakes.

14. Where is the kosher slaughterhouse Agriprocessors located?
(a) Coleman, Nebraska.
(b) Evansville, Indiana.
(c) Hart, Idaho.
(d) Postville, Iowa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At about what weight are farmed pigs usually slaughtered?

2. How many animals at the Berlin zoo survived the Allied air raids in 1942?

3. In how many U.S. states is it legal to eat dog?

4. What did the author change his college major to in his sophomore year?

5. What one recipe does the author describe his grandmother making when he grew up?

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