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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through On the Range.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of tale is Carl Karcher considered to be an example of?
(a) Of Two Cities.
(b) Strictly cautionary.
(c) Abe Lincoln.
(d) Horatio Alger.

2. Which transport industry is intentionally wiped out in Southern California?
(a) Car.
(b) Railway.
(c) Airline.
(d) Bus.

3. Michael Andreas gets sent to prison in 1999 for conspiring with foreign rivals to control the international market for what feed additive?
(a) Lysine.
(b) Ascorbic acid.
(c) Guar gum.
(d) Sorbitol.

4. How many pounds of potatoes does the J.R. Simplot plant in Aberdeen, Idaho produce?
(a) One billion.
(b) Four hundred thousand.
(c) Forty thousand.
(d) One million.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which company does Carl Karcher team up with to save Carl's Jr.?

2. Where does Simplot open a phosphate mine?

3. Colorado has lost how many acres of ranch land to development in the last twenty years?

4. What were people called who served the food at drive-in restaurants?

5. Where does the Air Defense Command move in 1951?

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