View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The annual bonuses of plant foremen and supervisors are often based on what?
(a) Efficient production.
(b) Long hours.
(c) Low injury rate reports.
(d) Employee morale.

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

3. In the 1920's, Plauen has the most millionaires in Germany and the most _____.
(a) Marriages.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Schitzel restaurants.
(d) Suicides.

4. Who announces that it is putting a new restaurant in every Wal-Mart in Germany?
(a) McDonald's Deutschland.
(b) Subway Rhineland.
(c) Pizza Hut International.
(d) KFC Germany.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the small electric knives with spinning, round blades that workers use to carve meat?

2. Chickens are regulated by what federal agency?

3. What does McDonald's call its hope for the conquest of foreign markets?

4. Who was elected for a second term in the 1999 Colorado Springs mayoral race?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does East German parliament member, Ernst Doerfler, call for a ban on McDonald's in East Germany?

2. What are the main reasons that most migrant workers look for meatpacking jobs in America?

3. How does World War I destroy the culture of Plauen, Germany?

4. How do the problems McDonald's is having with expansion resemble those of the British Empire a century ago?

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

6. Why does the author say that the "market" is a tool?

7. Why is the high turnover rate in the meatpacking industry not a concern for large companies?

8. How does the McDonald's Corporation review Fast Food Nation?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 748 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample