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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seventeen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the food companies produced more corn, they create more _________ as it is cheaper than sugar.
(a) Corn oil.
(b) Artificial sweeteners.
(c) High fructose corn syrup.
(d) Alcohol.

2. To help combat how much a person can eat, the food industry has created ________ starch that can allow people to eat more.
(a) Combatant.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Liquid.
(d) Resistant.

3. There are parts of the world, Pollan points out, where the only use of the land is for _______, otherwise it would be useless.
(a) Grazing.
(b) Farming.
(c) Display.
(d) Moving.

4. What is NOT one of the parts of corn that is separated out in the newly used process?
(a) Skin.
(b) Germ.
(c) Stalk.
(d) Endosperm.

5. Pollan admits that losing ________ does force the human to lose a part of his or her culture as well as his or her nature.
(a) Corn.
(b) Meat.
(c) Grains.
(d) Vegetables.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pollan take his family at the end of this section of the book?

2. How many generations have been at the Salatin farm, all committed to alternative farming?

3. The idea behind grass farming is that the ________ is the most natural and renewable source of energy.

4. The modern CAFO does not take into consideration the _________ of an animal when processing them.

5. To combat the human end of the imperfect system, marketers add ______ to their raw product -- making it a novelty.

(see the answer key)

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