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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) ConAgra.
(d) Coterra.

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

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

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

5. The sections of beef known as chucks, loins, ribs, and rounds are known as _______.
(a) Subprimals.
(b) Secondals.
(c) Choice.
(d) Primals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cattle remains that were previously fed to cattle are now fed to _____.

2. David M. Theno helped which California poultry processor eliminate Salmonella from most of its birds?

3. Eggs are regulated by what federal agency?

4. Which is the only state in the union to allow companies to leave the worker's comp system and set up its own system for dealing with injuries?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Sandra Gallegos disagree with Lee Harding's assumption that he got E. coli poisoning from a chicken taco at a Mexican restaurant?

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

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

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

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