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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. Where does Pollan take his family at the end of this section of the book?
(a) Taco Bell.
(b) Burger King.
(c) McDonald's.
(d) Wendy's.

2. What is the name of the development lab that Pollan visits in order to learn more about corn?
(a) Ralston Purina.
(b) Monsanto.
(c) General Mills.
(d) Birds Eye.

3. What is NOT one of the threads of the worldwide food chain that humans fit into?
(a) The industrial chain.
(b) The organic chain.
(c) The hunter-gatherer chain.
(d) The dairy market.

4. Each acre of corn, according to Pollan needs to have _________ gallons of fossil fuel to support it.
(a) 25.
(b) 50.
(c) 29.
(d) 30.

5. The invention of synthetic materials also meant that _________ would become necessary to fix the nitrogen.
(a) Organics.
(b) Solar power.
(c) Wind.
(d) Fossil fuels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan points out during the book that omnivores face a __________ when they eat today.

2. Corn is one of the only plants that is adaptable to _________.

3. 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.

4. Corn takes in more carbon _______ during the process of photosynthesis than other plants.

5. What does Naylor avoid when he is growing his crop on his farm?

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