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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. In 1996, which agency investigates the concentration of large meat-packing companies?

2. What is the nickname of Colorado Springs?

3. Who brings the Parisian recipe for pommes frites to America in 1802?

4. Which president enacts the Interstate Highway Act, modeled after Adolph Hitler's autobahn system?

5. What is the primary medium of children's advertising?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are teenagers perfect candidates for working in the fast food industry?

3. According to the author, what is the purpose of the episodes of the television show, Disneyland?

4. Why does General Motors get into the franchise business in 1898?

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

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

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

8. Why does Ray Kroc tell a reporter in 1972 that it is ridiculous to call the fast food industry an "industry"?

9. Why does Carl Karcher think Anaheim is "heaven" when he moves there from Ohio?

10. What is meant by the term "bulk commodity"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the innovation of the Chicken McNugget change the fast food food industry? How does it change the poultry industry? Which companies are involved in this evolution and how?

Essay Topic 2

What effect does Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, have on the meat-packing industry? What is Sinclair's intended effect in writing the book? What type of legislation is passed as a result of his book's publication?

Essay Topic 3

How do fast food companies market products to children? In what ways do companies maximize their products' exposure to kids once they become interested? What are some of the categories of "juvenile nagging tactics"? How are parents marketed to to maximize the child market?

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