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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. Mushrooms, Pollan points out, can be ________, but they can also be deadly.
(a) Divine.
(b) Easy to find.
(c) Helpful.
(d) Huge.

2. What does Pollan not have ready when he is about to take down a boar, causing him to feel ashamed?
(a) Stance.
(b) Gun.
(c) Hat.
(d) Hand position.

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

4. As the food companies produced more corn, they create more _________ as it is cheaper than sugar.
(a) Corn oil.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) High fructose corn syrup.
(d) Artificial sweeteners.

5. Who has helped Bev out by giving him a lot of produce to get by?
(a) No one.
(b) Naylor.
(c) Pollan.
(d) Salatin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Depending on how the animals were ________, different foods can contain different amounts of omega fatty acids.

2. What is the name of the once trash strewn park that was turned into a community garden?

3. Salatin's ______ invented many of the methods of farming that are used on the farm today.

4. What does Pollan admit about the chickens that Salatin sells on his farm?

5. Bev sells to _______ worried about their children, and for those choosing to opt out of the industrial system.

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