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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Cattle remains that were previously fed to cattle are now fed to _____.
(a) Pets.
(b) Wild boar.
(c) Ostriches.
(d) Alligators.

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

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

5. Greatly reducing the fat content of ________ could have and immediate effect on the nation's kids, according to the author.
(a) Fried chicken.
(b) Happy Meals.
(c) Chocolate sundaes.
(d) Steak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which company required that meatpacking houses slaughter cattle more humanely or lose their business?

2. How many pounds of ground beef can a single infected animal contaminate with E. coli O157:H7?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What percentage of the American population suffers a bout of food poisoning each year?

2. What does one of Dale Lasater's grandfather's do to fight against the Beef Trust?

3. How does a friend of Jesus, a late-night cleaning crew member, react when he enters the rendering room and why?

4. What is the scariest job performed by the late-night cleaning crew and why?

5. Why is grain-fed beef preferable to grass-fed beef?

6. How are most jobs performed in the beef industry and how is it different than the poultry industry?

7. What is the difference between good E.coli and bad E. coli?

8. What new production method developed by IBP causes skilled, unionized supermarket butchers to be fired?

9. Why is Red Top Restaurant a good place to work?

10. What was the most popular meat in America before World War II and why did that change?

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