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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year in the U.S.?
(a) 2 million pounds.
(b) 3 million pounds.
(c) 1 million pounds.
(d) 50,000 pounds.

2. What kind of agriculture do Bill and Nicolette Niman supoprt?
(a) Extensive agriculture
(b) Arable agriculture.
(c) Factory farming.
(d) Pasture-based agriculture.

3. What is America's hog-factory-rich state?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Ohio.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) South Dakota.

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

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

6. Americans eat how many times more chickens than they did 80 years ago?
(a) 100 times more.
(b) 25 times more.
(c) 150 times more.
(d) 50 times more.

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

8. According to the author, recent history has averaged a pandemic how often?
(a) Every 27.5 years.
(b) Every 32.5 years.
(c) Every 15 years.
(d) Every 40.5 years.

9. What is the population of Balinas, California?
(a) 4,673.
(b) 7,200.
(c) 145.
(d) 2,500.

10. When did Temple Grandin conduct an industrywide audit and conclude that the vast majority of slaughterhouses were unable to regularly render cattle unconscious with a single blow?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1999.

11. What word from the text means of the nature of being a model?
(a) Antagonistic.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Paradigmatic.
(d) Articulate.

12. The author claims that Bill, Paul, Nicolette, and Frank are the kind of people that the president should consult when selecting what?
(a) A secretary of ethics.
(b) A secretary of justice.
(c) A secretary of state.
(d) A secretary of agriculture.

13. On average, Americans eat the equivalent of how many entire animals in a lifetime?
(a) 1,550.
(b) 14,000.
(c) 18,000.
(d) 21,000.

14. What does HSUS stand for?
(a) Heuristic Society of the United States.
(b) Humane Society of the United States.
(c) Histoical Society of United Soldiers.
(d) Human Species Under Surveillance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Bill Niman's father immigrate to America?

2. What company did Diane and Marlene Halverson found?

3. What cow did Michael Pollan purchase and follow its life?

4. Who is the founder of Farm Forward?

5. According to government estimages obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, approximately how many chickens go alive and conscious into the scalding tank?

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