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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Most Dangerous Job.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During a rough period for the McDonald's corporation, Ray Kroc pays his secretary in what?
(a) Gift certificates.
(b) Food.
(c) Land.
(d) Stock.

2. What takes over Southern California, completely changing the lifestyle of the population there?
(a) The railway system.
(b) The assembly line.
(c) Television.
(d) The automobile.

3. In 1997, what does Rod Taylor of Brandweek say was one of the most successful promotions in the history of American advertising?
(a) Snow White.
(b) Cabbage Patch Kids.
(c) Garbage Pail Kids.
(d) The Teenie Beanie Baby.

4. Gaining the McNugget contract turns which company into the nation's largest chicken processor?
(a) Archer Daniels Midland.
(b) McNabb Hens.
(c) Tyson Foods.
(d) Williams Chicken Coporation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do prospective managers train for at Hamburger University?

2. What has the upheaval caused by fundamental changes that sweep the meat-packing industry come to be known as?

3. Who benefits most from the big tax deductions from donating to the Colorado land trusts?

4. Michael Andreas gets sent to prison in 1999 for conspiring with foreign rivals to control the international market for what feed additive?

5. Which room in the meatpacking plant contains machines that assemble cardboard boxes and vacuum seal meat in plastic?

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