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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What takes over Southern California, completely changing the lifestyle of the population there?

2. How much money does Dave Feamster owe Little Caesar's before he sells his first pizza?

3. What distinctive aspect of McDonald's is as strictly protected by copyright law as the designs on a box of soap?

4. What does KIGY stand for?

5. Who founds Dunkin' Donuts?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the consumer react to McDonald's switch from fresh to frozen french fries?

2. What is the rancher Hank's form of range management?

3. What largely determines an Idaho potato farmer's annual income?

4. Why does Disney create "Tomorrowland"?

5. Why does Dave Feamster get into business owning a Little Caesar's?

6. How are poultry contracts constructed?

7. How is the poultry industry transformed in the 1980's?

8. Why is the automobile industry not content with just reaping the rewards of government-subsidized road construction?

9. What strategy does Ray Kroc's business partner, Harry J. Sonneborn, devise to ensure McDonald's financial success?

10. What factors may have contributed to the rancher Hank's suicide?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the affects that the influx of migrant workers has on communities where the meatpacking industry exists. What attracts people from south of the border to want to work America? How are the companies at fault for the negative impact on the local health care systems? What promises have GFI America make to workers from Eagle Pass, Texas that had a negative impact on the economy?

Essay Topic 2

What effect does IBP have on the meat-packing industry? How does the nature of labor change in the meat-packing industry? Who are the major players involved and how does their involvement contribute to the company's getting into legal trouble?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the practices that get ConAgra Foods into legal trouble. Which aspects of their business are involved? How are they punished?

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