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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Internet at the heart of today's economy started out as what?
(a) A military communications network.
(b) A video game.
(c) A spy network.
(d) A business ethernet.

2. What is the term for how illegals are generally employed?
(a) "Longterm".
(b) "Short-term contract".
(c) "Permatemp".
(d) "At will".

3. Who was elected for a second term in the 1999 Colorado Springs mayoral race?
(a) Anne Summers.
(b) Roger Townsend.
(c) Mike Harper.
(d) Mary Lou Makepeace.

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

5. Which variant of mad cow disease literally destroys the brains of ten young people in Britain?
(a) Creutzfeldt-Jakob.
(b) Calicivirus.
(c) Campylobacter.
(d) Norwalk virus.

6. Which company required that meatpacking houses slaughter cattle more humanely or lose their business?
(a) McDonald's.
(b) Taco Bell.
(c) Boston Market.
(d) Wendy's.

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

8. 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.

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

10. In 1993, who becomes the first Latino head of the UFCW in Packingtown (Chicago)?
(a) Ruben Ramirez.
(b) Alex Molnar.
(c) Simon Gutierrez.
(d) Ramon Vasquez.

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

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

13. What town is near Lasater Ranch?
(a) Greeley, Colorado.
(b) Cheyenne, Wyoming.
(c) Matheson, Colorado.
(d) Pueblo, Colorado.

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

15. 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 reacher.
(b) An innard cowboy.
(c) A gutter.
(d) A roper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which company's name translates to "partnership with the land"?

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

3. What type of animal is a cow in that it eats primarily grass, and maybe grain, with multiple stomachs?

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

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

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