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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would the company that raised Pollan's steer not allow him to do?
(a) Come to see the farm.
(b) Take any notes.
(c) Pay for his steer.
(d) Watch it be processed.

2. Salatin doesn't follow the USDA guidelines by processing his _________ in an open air building without any walls.
(a) Fruits.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Eggs.

3. _______ was mass produced because of all of the corn that was grown at the time of the alcohol period in the country.
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Vermouth.
(c) Rum.
(d) Vodka.

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 argues that Salatin's method of farming is far more efficient in terms of _________ to produce calories.
(a) Calories.
(b) Fuel.
(c) Wind.
(d) People.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a bad corn year, the food industry might use __________ as a replacement in many foods.

2. The Salatin farming method is based on _________ polyculture, and it is highly energy efficient.

3. Salatin's ______ invented many of the methods of farming that are used on the farm today.

4. The manure of the _______ is spread on all of the pastures without fouling the pasture with too many droppings.

5. As the food companies produced more corn, they create more _________ as it is cheaper than sugar.

(see the answer key)

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