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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Plauen becomes part of the communist _______ after World War II.
(a) German Democratic Republic.
(b) Coalition.
(c) Demilitarized zone.
(d) Ideal.

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

8. The 1980 Education Act eliminates government subsidies for ___________.
(a) Pencils.
(b) Proper refirdgeration in schools.
(c) Milk at lunch.
(d) Nutritious school meals.

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

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

11. How many pounds of ground beef can a single infected animal contaminate with E. coli O157:H7?
(a) 20.
(b) 32,000.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 2,200.

12. Which group quickly agrees to a large pay cut for its workers when Monfort takes over a Grand Island, Nebraska slaughterhouse?
(a) The ACLU.
(b) The International Meatpackers Union.
(c) The UFCW.
(d) The National Maritime Union.

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

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

15. At the writing of this book, who is the current CEO of McDonald's Corporation?
(a) Ray Kroc.
(b) Thomas Macon.
(c) Jack Greenberg.
(d) Mike Eisner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rich Conway helps run which family business?

3. Which fast food chain made hamburgers popular in the 1920's?

4. The Titan II missiles at which company's plant northwest of Colorado Springs were originally designed to carry nuclear warheads?

5. Eggs are regulated by what federal agency?

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