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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) Battery acid.
(c) Synthetic wool.
(d) Flax seed oil.

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

3. What is the other name for mad cow disease from the book?
(a) BSE.
(b) SARS.
(c) AQS.
(d) E. coli O157:H7.

4. Who is the president of STOP (Safe Tables Our Priority)?
(a) Nancy Donley.
(b) Barbara Boxer.
(c) Kay Orr.
(d) Suzanne Somers.

5. What is the name of the supervisor given in the book who belittles his employees injuries, cursing them out, and shouting at his workers to move faster?
(a) Simon Legree.
(b) Simon LeMond.
(c) John LeMonde.
(d) Johann Legrand.

6. Injured workers at IBP who can't claim worker's comp almost always sign a ________ or risk losing their jobs.
(a) Short-term contract.
(b) Waiver.
(c) Confession of personal negligence.
(d) Consent form.

7. What illness caused by the toxin in E. coli O157-H7 can lead to kidney failure, anemia, internal bleeding, and the destruction of vital organs?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Ardalan-Shoja-Kiuru syndrome.
(c) Hemolytic uremic syndrome.
(d) Acrocallosal syndrome.

8. What is now the favorite drink among Chinese children?
(a) Dr. Pepper.
(b) Rice milk.
(c) Soy milk.
(d) Coca-cola.

9. What are the knee high rubber boots that the author puts on before entering the meatpacking plant?
(a) Justins.
(b) Dingos.
(c) Wellingtons.
(d) Hipwaders.

10. What is the name of the "labor consultant" from New York City who meets with IBP and has close ties to La Cosa Nostra?
(a) John Gotti.
(b) Tom Pendergast.
(c) Moe Stenman.
(d) Al Capone.

11. The Titan II missiles at which company's plant northwest of Colorado Springs were originally designed to carry nuclear warheads?
(a) Lockheed Martin.
(b) Northrup.
(c) Boeing.
(d) Raytheon.

12. What is the job title of a worker in a packinghouse who pulls the stomach out of a steer and ties off the intestines?
(a) A gutter.
(b) A reacher.
(c) A roper.
(d) An innard cowboy.

13. Which packing house owner is one of the two people from Colorado to be put on President Nixon's enemy list?
(a) Ken Monfort.
(b) Mike Harper.
(c) Nathan Meeker.
(d) Horace Greeley.

14. 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 rump room.
(d) The fabricating room.

15. Who was the newly elected governor of Nebraska told by Mike Harper that his company needed more tax breaks or it would pick up shop and leave the state?
(a) Nancy Pelosi.
(b) Tom Daschel.
(c) Kay Orr.
(d) John Murkowski.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chickens are regulated by what federal agency?

2. What does the "knocker" use to shoot the live cattle in the head as they enter the building?

3. Companies from which country have bought Chrysler, Random House, and RCA Records?

4. What item collected from restaurants in 1997 is banned from being fed to cattle by the FDA?

5. Eggs are regulated by what federal agency?

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