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

2. Who writes the book, The Jungle, in 1906?
(a) Henry Miller.
(b) Upton Sinclair.
(c) Mary Shelley.
(d) John Updike.

3. Where do some meatpacking workers cook little bits of meat on a shift?
(a) On the cremator.
(b) In their sterilizers.
(c) In their hard hads.
(d) On the converyer belt motor.

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

5. In what area of the packing plant do workers use a power saw to slice cattle into halves?
(a) The sticker shack.
(b) The rest area.
(c) The fab room.
(d) The kill floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Internet at the heart of today's economy started out as what?

2. The annual bonuses of plant foremen and supervisors are often based on what?

3. What is the name of the "labor consultant" from New York City who meets with IBP and has close ties to La Cosa Nostra?

4. Plauen becomes part of the communist _______ after World War II.

5. Which pet food company was responsible for contracting a feline variant of mad cow disease?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. According to the author, what is one of President George W. Bush's first acts in office?

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