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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. Corn is one of the only plants that is adaptable to _________.
(a) Weather.
(b) Hybridization.
(c) Drought.
(d) Pesticides.

2. Pollan doesn't feel the same about the picture a few months later and wonders which emotion is more accurate - the happiness or the ________.
(a) Anger.
(b) Terror.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Shame.

3. Corn became a _________ because of its many applications for use by the settlers.
(a) Commodity.
(b) Problem.
(c) Drink.
(d) Fuel.

4. Pollan equates the feeling of everything coming into focused while also being completely relaxed to being ________.
(a) On a long run.
(b) Asleep.
(c) Stoned.
(d) With friends.

5. Humans, when faced with a new _______, often take a small amount and wait for the results.
(a) Person.
(b) Decision.
(c) Book.
(d) Food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though the process of _________, animals can be fed, which then leads to the feeding of humans, too.

2. Where does Pollan take his family at the end of this section of the book?

3. Buying local foods grown in a __________ manner underwrites a set of values important to the people.

4. The farm and the human are two ________ natural systems that the food industry relies on.

5. Bentham makes the argument that if there are some humans that lack the brainpower of a ________, why are they still included in the moral argument?

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