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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 has the upheaval caused by fundamental changes that sweep the meat-packing industry come to be known as?
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?
3. Who announces that it is putting a new restaurant in every Wal-Mart in Germany?
4. In 1988, a panel from which organization warns that the nation's public health infrastructure is in serious disarray, limiting its ability to track or prevent the spread of newly emerging pathogens?
5. Which California-based restaurant chain boasts no microwaves, heat lamps, or freezers?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the scariest job performed by the late-night cleaning crew and why?
2. How does In-N-Out Burger do business differently than other restaurants?
3. Why is grain-fed beef preferable to grass-fed beef?
4. How do the problems McDonald's is having with expansion resemble those of the British Empire a century ago?
5. Why is Red Top Restaurant a good place to work?
6. What does one of Dale Lasater's grandfather's do to fight against the Beef Trust?
7. Why is the high turnover rate in the meatpacking industry not a concern for large companies?
8. How does a friend of Jesus, a late-night cleaning crew member, react when he enters the rendering room and why?
9. What new production method developed by IBP causes skilled, unionized supermarket butchers to be fired?
10. Why does the author say that the "market" is a tool?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Who benefits from "conservation easements"? Why? What type of rancher faces the most economic difficulty in light of population growth and larger companies having captive supplies? Why? What other advantages do large companies have over smaller ranchers?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the role of different food additives in the processed food industry. Why do additives become important? What kinds of additives are used and where do they come from?
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