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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What's interesting is that the brand owners do not actually own the _____________, as these are owned by third parties.
(a) Companies.
(b) Slums.
(c) Labor pool.
(d) Sweatshops.

2. The local military and police stop any ___________ by those who are not actually workers at the factories.
(a) Penetration.
(b) Exploitation.
(c) Ordering.
(d) Protesting.

3. The Critical _________ bike rides was a movement which began in San Francisco in 1992 and spread throughout the globe.
(a) Mass.
(b) Ride.
(c) Truth.
(d) Bike.

4. In order to promote a brand, a company needs to purchase both physical and air ____________ for these products.
(a) Shelving.
(b) Messages.
(c) Space.
(d) Billboards.

5. Contracted ________ work is becoming the norm for many companies, according to the findings of Klein.
(a) Underground.
(b) Home.
(c) Factory.
(d) Slum.

Short Answer Questions

1. By changing the ad message, the __________ behind the company who originally made the advertisement can be exposed.

2. __________ was the first company to begin with the idea of shipping production overseas where it could be cheaper.

3. The markup of the products allows for the expansion of more brand __________ and more executive salaries.

4. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company _________ was the defining incident of the first anti-sweatshop movement in the United States.

5. Which female magazine decided to go advertisement free in order to show its support of women and their own right to decide what they want to buy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the health care industry begin to incorporate the idea of impermanent workers?

2. What happens when the factory jobs are reduced to part time or temporary workers, or they are outsourced?

3. Why are the factories themselves walled off from the rest of the world and the general population of the area?

4. What do governments in third world countries offer to American companies as incentives to move their production there?

5. Why do businesses say that promoting a brand is an expensive business, according to Klein in her book?

6. Why weren't women able to feed their children milk as they were growing up in the sweatshop conditions?

7. What are the two fronts on which the retailers are winning in terms of paying production and retail workers?

8. What was the technique used by reporters to help expose the atrocities of factory conditions?

9. How did the National Labor Committee begin to expose the atrocities taking place in factories around the world?

10. What is the overall concept behind corporate and culture jamming?

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