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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Afterword: The Meaning of Mad Cow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cattle manure is not sent to waste treatment plants but dumped into ______.
(a) Irrigation ditches.
(b) Septic systems.
(c) Lagoons.
(d) City dumps.

2. At the "Success" seminar, what is the prize for winning the dance contest?
(a) A paid guest spot on a "Success" commercial.
(b) A car.
(c) A home stereo system.
(d) A trip to Disneyland.

3. What is the nickname for the McDonald's operations and training manual assembled by Fred Turner in 1958?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Paper Weight.
(c) The Book.
(d) The Way.

4. 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) Guar gum.
(c) Sorbitol.
(d) Ascorbic acid.

5. The leading sectors of the nation's economy are controlled by corporate alliances known as _______.
(a) Squads.
(b) Divisions.
(c) Amalgomates.
(d) Trusts.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which organization is Wernher von Braun a member during World War II?

2. For more than three decades, the fast food industry uses what federal agency to finance new restaurants?

3. The 1980 Education Act eliminates government subsidies for ___________.

4. What is phosphate used for in potato farming?

5. Which packing house owner is one of the two people from Colorado to be put on President Nixon's enemy list?

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