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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two through Chapter Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Corn takes in more carbon _______ during the process of photosynthesis than other plants.
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 13.

3. Corn began to rise to fame when the government war factories turned into __________ factories.
(a) Commerce.
(b) Military.
(c) Peacetime.
(d) Reduction.

4. Pollan points out that the industrial method of farming has led to increased ________ and polluted groundwater.
(a) Oil wells.
(b) Food supplies.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Energy.

5. 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.
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Phosphorus.
(c) Potassium.
(d) Nitrogen.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Naylor farm has turned from a diverse farm to one that has become a _________ production mecca.

2. The lack of a food _______ is something that causes humans to be susceptible to food fads.

3. Pollan hopes to bring the reader back to their original _______ of food.

4. As a result of the new government agreement, the market is flooded with _______ corn.

5. The invention of synthetic materials also meant that _________ would become necessary to fix the nitrogen.

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