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

2. Who was the newly elected governor of Nebraska told by Mike Harper that his company needed more tax breaks or it would pick up shop and leave the state?
(a) Kay Orr.
(b) Tom Daschel.
(c) Nancy Pelosi.
(d) John Murkowski.

3. Which packing house owner is one of the two people from Colorado to be put on President Nixon's enemy list?
(a) Mike Harper.
(b) Nathan Meeker.
(c) Ken Monfort.
(d) Horace Greeley.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who announces that it is putting a new restaurant in every Wal-Mart in Germany?

2. What do some workers need to make themselves feel charged up and self-confident?

3. Eggs are regulated by what federal agency?

4. What town is near Lasater Ranch?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the vegetarian community react when it is brought to light that there is a beef additive in the McDonald's french fries?

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

8. Why is the impact of fast food readily apparent in Germany?

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

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

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