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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. Ray Kroc is a jazz musician what time period?

2. Subway is founded in 1965 by whom?

3. Where is the potato museum in Idaho?

4. In 1972, Ray Kroc gives $250,000 to whose presidential campaign?

5. What is the name of the religious group that James Dobson moves to Colorado Springs from Pomona, California?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do ranchers become victim to their own fallacy of composition in the 1970's?

3. How do the patterns of land ownership in the American West seem to closely resemble those of rural England?

4. What are some of Carl Karcher's ideas that should have remained on the drawing board?

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

6. Why does Colorado Springs gain a series of new military bases after World War II?

7. What is a development agent?

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

9. What do the McDonald brothers do in 1948 to change the food retail business and why?

10. How are poultry contracts constructed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How did Mike Harper of ConAgra manipulate the Nebraska tax code? Which governor was involved? What tax breaks did he want? How do these breaks help other companies? What threat did he make if his demands were not met? What did he do after he got everything he wanted?

Essay Topic 3

Describe how Henry Ford's assembly line style of production affects evolution of service in the fast food industry. What restaurant chains espouse this method of production? Why is it so effective?

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