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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Global Realization.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1988, a panel from which organization warns that the nation's public health infrastructure is in serious disarray, limiting its ability to track or prevent the spread of newly emerging pathogens?
(a) The Center for Disease Control.
(b) The Health and Safety Board.
(c) The National Academy of Sciences.
(d) The National Institute of Health.

2. Which president enacts the Interstate Highway Act, modeled after Adolph Hitler's autobahn system?
(a) Coolidge.
(b) Truman.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Eisenhower.

3. Cattle that are either maintained in a company-owned feedlot or purchased in advance through forward contracts are known as ________.
(a) Captive supplies.
(b) Pen reserves.
(c) Overstock.
(d) Common stock.

4. Where is the motorcycle club that springs up in Southern California after World War II?
(a) The Hell's Angels.
(b) The Gate Keepers.
(c) The Knights of Destruction.
(d) The Galloping Goose.

5. What is phosphate used for in potato farming?
(a) Fertilizer.
(b) Irrigation.
(c) Pesticide.
(d) Preservatives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who slits the neck of a steer every ten seconds in the meatpacking house?

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

3. Where does Simplot open a phosphate mine?

4. What is the annual turnover rate in the fast food industry at the writing of this book?

5. What does Simplot's Lincoln Continental license plate say?

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