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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To combat the human end of the imperfect system, marketers add ______ to their raw product -- making it a novelty.
(a) Sugars.
(b) Prices.
(c) Value.
(d) Packaging.

2. What is the name of the farm that Salatin runs?
(a) Polyface.
(b) Polyjuice.
(c) Polyfarm.
(d) Polyanna.

3. In a bad corn year, the food industry might use __________ as a replacement in many foods.
(a) Soybeans.
(b) Baking soda.
(c) Salt.
(d) Wheat.

4. Since they don't have to worry about nitrogen, farmers no longer have to ________ their crops to ensure soil fertility.
(a) Salt.
(b) Plant.
(c) Weed.
(d) Rotate.

5. Organic farms might still look like industrial farms, but they do not use ___________.
(a) Chemicals.
(b) Rules.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Metals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the farm that George Naylor runs when Pollan goes to visit him to learn more?

2. Many of the products at the health store where Pollan shops contain foods from the _________ food chain.

3. Salatin pushes for the right to opt out of ____________ of his farm, according to the book.

4. Corn began to rise to fame when the government war factories turned into __________ factories.

5. Synthetic _______, invented by Fritz Haber as a side effect of his work on bombs in Germany, meant that crops could be grown without care about the amount of this substance on the Earth.

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