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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. Who is the largest employer in Weld County, Colorado?
(a) Swift.
(b) Armour.
(c) ConAgra.
(d) Monfort.

2. What are long-haired, working class German fans of American heavy metal music called in Plauen?
(a) Die Metalheads.
(b) Die Rockers.
(c) Die Heavies.
(d) Die Hammers.

3. David M. Theno helped which California poultry processor eliminate Salmonella from most of its birds?
(a) Grimaud Farms.
(b) Tyson.
(c) Foster Farms.
(d) Petaluma Poultry Processing.

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

5. What is considered the most important tool in the modern slaughterhouse?
(a) Your wits.
(b) A good lawyer.
(c) A tough attitude.
(d) A sharp knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Companies from which country have bought Chrysler, Random House, and RCA Records?

2. Which company required that meatpacking houses slaughter cattle more humanely or lose their business?

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

4. Which California-based restaurant chain boasts no microwaves, heat lamps, or freezers?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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