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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author claims that upwards of what percentage of all animals eaten in the U.S. come from factory farms?

2. Where was the farmer from that brought the author's grandmother food as she was starving at the end of the war?

3. What does the author call the bread of his people's affliction?

4. When the author first crept onto a farm in the middle of the night, he carried with him a copy of what California penal code?

5. By what title does the author refer to his grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do our food choices contribute to environmental degradation and global warming, according to the author in "Words/Meaning"?

2. What is a downer? How does the author describe downers in the industrial farming industry?

3. What inspired the author to write Eating Animals?

4. What does CFE refer to? Why does the author criticize it?

5. What is the significance of the 60 pounds of flour in the author's grandmother's basement?

6. Discuss the author's story of his grandmother's encounter with a Russian farmer. What does this story demonstrate?

7. What aspect of fellowship does the author challenge as offered by Michael Pollan?

8. Why does the author cite Franz Kafka in "Shame"?

9. How have chicken and egg production changed since the 1930s?

10. What is bycatch and what are the environmental ramifications of bycatch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define and discuss the following terms from the text: free-range, organic, kosher, and grass-fed. How much legitimacy does the author lend to each of these terms? Which of these terms are deemed misleading by the author? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the author's experience stealing into industrial farms with C in the narrative. How did the author and C enter the farms? What did they discover inside? How did these experiences affect the author?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the life of a broiler chicken in an industrial farm. Where would the chicken be born? Where would it grow up? What would its surrounding be like? How long would it live? What would the conditions of its life be like?

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