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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the communist rule of East Germany, the successful manufacturing of what product causes high pollution in the city?
(a) Cotton paper.
(b) Synthetic wool.
(c) Battery acid.
(d) Flax seed oil.

2. Which pet food company was responsible for contracting a feline variant of mad cow disease?
(a) Pedigree Master Foods.
(b) Nutro.
(c) Special Kitty.
(d) Science Diet.

3. What do some workers need to make themselves feel charged up and self-confident?
(a) Sugara pills.
(b) Pep talks.
(c) Coke.
(d) Crank.

4. In what area of the packing plant do workers use a power saw to slice cattle into halves?
(a) The rest area.
(b) The fab room.
(c) The sticker shack.
(d) The kill floor.

5. Which room in the meatpacking plant contains machines that assemble cardboard boxes and vacuum seal meat in plastic?
(a) The kill floor.
(b) The butcher shop.
(c) The fabricating room.
(d) The rump room.

6. Which other German city is less heavily bombed in World War II by the Allies, but sustains more damage?
(a) Frankfurt.
(b) Hamburg.
(c) Munich.
(d) Dresden.

7. David M. Theno helped which California poultry processor eliminate Salmonella from most of its birds?
(a) Foster Farms.
(b) Petaluma Poultry Processing.
(c) Tyson.
(d) Grimaud Farms.

8. How high can the percentage of cattle that carries E. coli O157:H7 get in the summer?
(a) Twenty-five percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Forty percent.
(d) One percent.

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

10. The annual bonuses of plant foremen and supervisors are often based on what?
(a) Low injury rate reports.
(b) Efficient production.
(c) Long hours.
(d) Employee morale.

11. What is the primary export of Plauen, Germany before World War I?
(a) Beer.
(b) Trumpets.
(c) Wool.
(d) Lace.

12. What item collected from restaurants in 1997 is banned from being fed to cattle by the FDA?
(a) Leftover cheese.
(b) Plate waste.
(c) Spoiled produce.
(d) Paper.

13. Companies from which country have bought Chrysler, Random House, and RCA Records?
(a) England.
(b) Japan.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

14. Where do some meatpacking workers cook little bits of meat on a shift?
(a) On the converyer belt motor.
(b) On the cremator.
(c) In their hard hads.
(d) In their sterilizers.

15. Rich Conway helps run which family business?
(a) Red Top Restaurant.
(b) Monfort.
(c) Lasater Ranch.
(d) Red X grocery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who purchases IBP in this chapter?

2. In 1993, who becomes the first Latino head of the UFCW in Packingtown (Chicago)?

3. What type of toxin is released form E. coli O157-H7?

4. Plauen becomes part of the communist _______ after World War II.

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

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