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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. What type of animal is a cow in that it eats primarily grass, and maybe grain, with multiple stomachs?
(a) A ruminant.
(b) A carnivore.
(c) An hebivore.
(d) A vegetarian.

2. What has the upheaval caused by fundamental changes that sweep the meat-packing industry come to be known as?
(a) Anti-unionization.
(b) The ConAgra solution.
(c) The IBP revolution.
(d) The anti-trust fiasco.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How high can the percentage of cattle that carries E. coli O157:H7 get in the summer?

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

4. In what area of the packing plant do workers use a power saw to slice cattle into halves?

5. Injured workers at IBP who can't claim worker's comp almost always sign a ________ or risk losing their jobs.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do meatpacking workers routinely develop cumulative trauma disorders?

4. According to anthropologist, Yunxiang Yan, what does McDonald's represent for Beijing customers?

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

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

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

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

9. How does In-N-Out Burger do business differently than other restaurants?

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

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