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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. The family _______, one of the remaining parts of America's food culture, is in decline, according to Pollan.
(a) Supper.
(b) Tea.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Dinner.

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

3. A new program was introduced to pay the farmers directly for the difference in price between the target and the selling price of ________.
(a) Wheat.
(b) Soybeans.
(c) Barley.
(d) Corn.

4. Pollan isn't surprised that the ________ doesn't encourage Salatin's farming since he buys almost nothing to support it.
(a) Big box stores.
(b) Government.
(c) Feed lots.
(d) Neighboring farmers.

5. Pollan argues that ______ should be the basis for a new revolution, since it is what sustains and helps define culture.
(a) Farms.
(b) Food.
(c) Books.
(d) Restaurants.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ changed the way that humans ate, and put humans at the top of the food chain.

2. 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.

3. Salatin uses the animals to create a _________ system that also bolsters efficiency on the farm.

4. The Salatin farming method is based on _________ polyculture, and it is highly energy efficient.

5. Pollan admits that losing ________ does force the human to lose a part of his or her culture as well as his or her nature.

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