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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Cogs in the Great Machine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speed and volume of a factory's flow is called what?
(a) Bottom line.
(b) Money movement.
(c) Throughput.
(d) Efficiency effect.

2. McDonald's has to get rid of its mascot, Speedee, because which company has a mascot with the similar name, Speedy?
(a) VO5.
(b) Tang.
(c) Tum's.
(d) Alka-Seltzer.

3. Republican Congressman Howard Coble, who introduces legislation to regulate franchising, is from which state?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Indiana.
(c) South Dakota.
(d) Iowa.

4. In 1972, Ray Kroc gives $250,000 to whose presidential campaign?
(a) Carter.
(b) McGovern.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Ford.

5. What is Ray Kroc doing when he first visited McDonald's in 1954?
(a) Eating out for the first time.
(b) Looking for work.
(c) Asking for directions.
(d) Selling milkshake mixers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1996, which agency investigates the concentration of large meat-packing companies?

2. After working at Burger King for about a year, what does sociologist Ester Reiter conclude was the trait most valued in fast food workers?

3. What is the largest daily newspaper in Colorado Springs?

4. Who writes the book, The Jungle, in 1906?

5. Ray Kroc is a jazz musician what time period?

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