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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Johan Hultin arrive in Brevig Mission?
(a) 1997.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1959.

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

3. Who has been the leading scientist investigating energy usage in food production, according to Bill Niman?
(a) R. K. Pachauri.
(b) David Pimentel.
(c) Dr. Aaron Gross.
(d) Mario Fantasma.

4. What does Nicolette Niman say is the one thing their ranch does that she is uncomfortable with?
(a) Castration.
(b) Administering antibiotics.
(c) De-budding.
(d) Branding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the National Chicken Council how many chickens are improperly slaughtered each year?

2. Temple Grandin's most recent estimates of cattle slaughter indicate that what percentage of cattle are unable to be rendered unconscious prior to processing?

3. The situation of plants being unable to render cattle unconscious before processing has improved, according to Temple Grandin, largely due to audits demanded by whom?

4. What company did Diane and Marlene Halverson found?

5. Who runs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the concept of nature developed as a theme in Eating Animals?

2. Why does the author discuss the 1918 flu pandemic?

3. Discuss Bill Niman's history. What led him to establish Niman Ranch?

4. What infections are common in factory-farmed poultry? How common are they?

5. How does the author describe the workers and working conditions of chicken slaughterhouses?

6. What is the justification provided by the author of the transcript in "I Am A Vegan Who Builds Slaughterhouses"?

7. What estimates does the WHO provide regarding future pandemics?

8. What meat industry does the author consider to be the most ethically upstanding? Why?

9. What company does Frank Reese run? What does it specialize in?

10. How does Nicolette Niman justify her work at Niman Ranch while maintaining a vegetarian lifestyle?

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