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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Moe Stenman.
(b) John Gotti.
(c) Tom Pendergast.
(d) Al Capone.

2. What is the name of the small electric knives with spinning, round blades that workers use to carve meat?
(a) Whizzard.
(b) Carver.
(c) Slingblade.
(d) Sectioner.

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

4. Who kills Nathan Meeker in a dispute in 1879?
(a) His factory workers.
(b) A group of Ute Indians.
(c) John Dillinger.
(d) Warren Monfort.

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

6. What are the apron and gloves made of that workers put on to protect themselves from knife wounds?
(a) Chain mail.
(b) Leather.
(c) Kevlar.
(d) Goretex.

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

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

9. Which company's name translates to "partnership with the land"?
(a) Monfort.
(b) Coterra.
(c) ConAgra.
(d) Lamb Weston.

10. Which health secretary surprises the British Parliament by declaring that mad cow disease might jump species and infect humans?
(a) Alistair Carmichael.
(b) Gregory Barker.
(c) Stephen Dorrell.
(d) Danny Alexander.

11. The East German Secret Police are called ______.
(a) KGB.
(b) Stasi.
(c) EGSP.
(d) NAZI.

12. 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) John LeMonde.
(b) Simon Legree.
(c) Johann Legrand.
(d) Simon LeMond.

13. What is considered the most important tool in the modern slaughterhouse?
(a) A good lawyer.
(b) A tough attitude.
(c) A sharp knife.
(d) Your wits.

14. What does McDonald's call its hope for the conquest of foreign markets?
(a) World domination.
(b) International foodism.
(c) The Burger Wave.
(d) Global realization.

15. Which country's beef has a vastly lower rate of Salmonella than the U.S., at .01%?
(a) Japan.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

Short Answer 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?

2. What are the knee high rubber boots that the author puts on before entering the meatpacking plant?

3. Where do some meatpacking workers cook little bits of meat on a shift?

4. Greatly reducing the fat content of ________ could have and immediate effect on the nation's kids, according to the author.

5. Who is the largest employer in Weld County, Colorado?

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