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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. What does Pollan admit he liked more than he had anticipated liking?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Gathering mushrooms.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Writing the book.

2. Assuming a higher intelligence in humans does not equate to a right to use others for our own _________.
(a) Ends.
(b) Press.
(c) Books.
(d) Protests.

3. A new economy, based on a new way of __________, demands a new kind of eating where people enjoy preparing meals.
(a) Buying.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Delivering.
(d) Farming.

4. What was the primary emotion that Pollan feels when he shoots and kills his first boar?
(a) Anger.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Shame.
(d) Boredom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan thinks that if stores had to include __________ of how an item was produced, people would change their eating habits.

2. What is the underlying foundation of the entire Salatin farm, according to Pollan?

3. What is the name of the development lab that Pollan visits in order to learn more about corn?

4. What is the name of Peter's Singer's book that informs the beginning of this chapter?

5. _________ hunters are hugely secretive, according to Pollan's observations.

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