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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Over time, corn has become everything humans need to be a staple of the _________ food chain.
(a) Organic.
(b) Industrialized.
(c) Plentiful.
(d) Hunter-gatherer.

4. Pollan points out during the book that omnivores face a __________ when they eat today.
(a) Overabundance.
(b) Problem.
(c) Dilemma.
(d) Truth.

5. The push for corn has also led to the industrialization of _______ farms, according to Naylor.
(a) Animal.
(b) Dairy.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Soybean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ingredient that is broken into glucose and sweeteners, including high fructose corn syrup?

2. How many atoms does corn utilize during photosynthesis, unlike others?

3. _______ was mass produced because of all of the corn that was grown at the time of the alcohol period in the country.

4. 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.

5. Corn is also able to limit the ______ lost during the process of photosynthesis, according to the book.

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