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

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

2. Some believe that human ________ is different from that of animals because humans are capable of suffering.
(a) Relationships.
(b) Eating.
(c) Existence.
(d) Pain.

3. Corn is also able to limit the ______ lost during the process of photosynthesis, according to the book.
(a) Calories.
(b) Sunlight.
(c) Energy.
(d) Water.

4. Salatin pushes for the right to opt out of ____________ of his farm, according to the book.
(a) USDA rules.
(b) Government protection.
(c) Colonization.
(d) Industrialization.

5. What store does Pollan go to in order to begin creating a store-purchased organic meal?
(a) Trader Joe's.
(b) Cassandra's.
(c) Richard's Organic Foods.
(d) Whole Foods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Pollan and Garro decide to go out to hunt at the start of the chapter?

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

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

4. _________ foods are those that are generally recognized to be toxic to humans.

5. The _________ is one of the specialized animals that Pollan points out as having no issues with eating.

(see the answer key)

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