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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. Who kills Nathan Meeker in a dispute in 1879?

2. Which other German city is less heavily bombed in World War II by the Allies, but sustains more damage?

3. What type of animal is a cow in that it eats primarily grass, and maybe grain, with multiple stomachs?

4. Who slits the neck of a steer every ten seconds in the meatpacking house?

5. Eggs are regulated by what federal agency?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the McDonald's Corporation review Fast Food Nation?

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

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

4. What was the most popular meat in America before World War II and why did that change?

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

6. Why is grain-fed beef preferable to grass-fed beef?

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

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

9. What does one of Dale Lasater's grandfather's do to fight against the Beef Trust?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how the conservative nature of the city of Colorado Springs evolved. Include the historical, political, and religious aspects of the city.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the plight of the Idaho potato farmer. How does the potato industry evolve in the twentieth century? Who are the major players involved in changing the potato industry? How does the development of potatoes into a bulk commodity affect the farmer?

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