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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 does McDonald's call its hope for the conquest of foreign markets?

2. What was the name of the cat that died in Bristol, England of a feline variant of mad cow disease?

3. In what area of the packing plant do workers use a power saw to slice cattle into halves?

4. Chickens are regulated by what federal agency?

5. Injured workers at IBP who can't claim worker's comp almost always sign a ________ or risk losing their jobs.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the high turnover rate in the meatpacking industry not a concern for large companies?

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

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

4. What is the scariest job performed by the late-night cleaning crew and why?

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

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

7. Why does East German parliament member, Ernst Doerfler, call for a ban on McDonald's in East Germany?

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

9. Why does Sandra Gallegos disagree with Lee Harding's assumption that he got E. coli poisoning from a chicken taco at a Mexican restaurant?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the daily routine of Elisa Zamot, the sixteen-year-old described in the book who works at McDonald's. How is she like many other teenagers who work at McDonald's? Why does McDonald's hire teenagers? How is Elisa treated at work?

Essay Topic 2

How does the author compare the appearance of bacterium Escherichia coli O157:H7 to the outbreak of the AIDS virus? Include when each first appeared, its affects on its victims, and how each can lie dormant for years, and what conditions have made it possible for each to thrive.

Essay Topic 3

Describe some of the different jobs in a slaughterhouse. Include the tools used and the inherent dangers in each job.

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