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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Liquid.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Resistant.

2. Though the process of _________, animals can be fed, which then leads to the feeding of humans, too.
(a) Seasons.
(b) Hard work.
(c) Water.
(d) Photosynthesis.

3. How many acres of woodland help Salatin continue to live outside the modern world?
(a) 450.
(b) 100.
(c) 250.
(d) 5.

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

5. __________ involves higher emotions of dread, shame, and fear, according to Pollan.
(a) Society.
(b) Moral drama.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Consequence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What takes corn meal, corn starch, and corn sweetener to make?

2. Where do all of the parts of the corn end up in as a result of the new process to separate its parts?

3. Salatin uses the animals to create a _________ system that also bolsters efficiency on the farm.

4. What is the process by which corn is changed into different parts?

5. What would the company that raised Pollan's steer not allow him to do?

(see the answer key)

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