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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. During the communist rule of East Germany, the successful manufacturing of what product causes high pollution in the city?
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. In the 1920's, Plauen has the most millionaires in Germany and the most _____.
4. Which room in the meatpacking plant contains machines that assemble cardboard boxes and vacuum seal meat in plastic?
5. What is the name of the "labor consultant" from New York City who meets with IBP and has close ties to La Cosa Nostra?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does East German parliament member, Ernst Doerfler, call for a ban on McDonald's in East Germany?
2. What percentage of the American population suffers a bout of food poisoning each year?
3. How do the problems McDonald's is having with expansion resemble those of the British Empire a century ago?
4. How does In-N-Out Burger do business differently than other restaurants?
5. Why is the high turnover rate in the meatpacking industry not a concern for large companies?
6. How does World War I destroy the culture of Plauen, Germany?
7. What is the scariest job performed by the late-night cleaning crew and why?
8. According to anthropologist, Yunxiang Yan, what does McDonald's represent for Beijing customers?
9. What is the difference between good E.coli and bad E. coli?
10. Why is grain-fed beef preferable to grass-fed beef?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Describe the affects that the influx of migrant workers has on communities where the meatpacking industry exists. What attracts people from south of the border to want to work America? How are the companies at fault for the negative impact on the local health care systems? What promises have GFI America make to workers from Eagle Pass, Texas that had a negative impact on the economy?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the sales pitch given to the city of Lexington, Nebraska by IBP to get citizens to allow a slaughterhouse be built there. How was this sales pitch a far cry from the reality that Lexington lives with today?
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