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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the potato museum in Idaho?
(a) Boise.
(b) Yellowstone.
(c) Blackfoot.
(d) Aberdeen.

3. What is the education level of billionaire, J.R. Simplot?
(a) Two years of technical school.
(b) Master's Degree in Agriculture.
(c) Eighth-grade dropout.
(d) Graduated high school.

4. Who owns Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut?
(a) Subway.
(b) Franchise Conglomerate Services Company.
(c) McDonald's.
(d) Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc.

5. Ray Kroc is a jazz musician what time period?
(a) Prohibition.
(b) The Depression.
(c) World War II.
(d) The 1950's.

6. 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.

7. What distinctive aspect of McDonald's is as strictly protected by copyright law as the designs on a box of soap?
(a) The interior color schemes.
(b) The presence of playgrounds.
(c) The architecture.
(d) The design of the menus.

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

9. What is responsible for converting the Idaho desert into lush farmland?
(a) The Snake River flood.
(b) Private irrigation contracts.
(c) Rainfall pattern changes.
(d) The Snake River Reclamation Project.

10. What do prospective managers train for at Hamburger University?
(a) A Medal of McDonald's.
(b) A Degree in Hamburgerology.
(c) Self-Service Science.
(d) A Bachelor's in Fry Science.

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

12. According to the founder of the "Success" seminar, which faith is considered to be hopelessly out of date?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Islam.

13. Disney's broadcast of "Our Friend the Atom" is sponsored by which manufacturing company?
(a) Teledyne.
(b) General Electric.
(c) DuPont.
(d) General Dynamics.

14. What professional sport does Dave Feamster play before buying into a Little Caesar's franchise?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Hockey.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Football.

15. Subway is founded in 1965 by whom?
(a) Ray Kroc.
(b) Frederick DeLuca.
(c) John Atwater.
(d) Carl Karcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. The receipt of a tax break by ranchers for donating future development rights to a Colorado land trust is called a ________.

2. Before entering the Ray A. Kroc Musem, visitors pass through what?

3. Who is last to speak at the "Success" seminar and "cuts through all the snake oil", saying that all the conventional goals people have don't really matter?

4. What style of clothing does someone not see at Harrison High School now?

5. Who brings the Parisian recipe for pommes frites to America in 1802?

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