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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five through Chapter Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the process by which corn is changed into different parts?
(a) Wet mill.
(b) Wet substrate.
(c) Dry mill.
(d) Dry dock.

3. Corn ________ early on to mass produce, but this also made the plant dependent on humans and animals.
(a) Reproduced.
(b) Grew.
(c) Mutated.
(d) Died.

4. The soda industry began to ______ their sodas, which led people to drink more and to buy more.
(a) Add nutrients.
(b) Change the names of.
(c) Supersize.
(d) Add contests to.

5. Over time, corn has become everything humans need to be a staple of the _________ food chain.
(a) Industrialized.
(b) Hunter-gatherer.
(c) Organic.
(d) Plentiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the person who began to take away the programs to help the farmers?

2. The increased ______ of corn has meant a drop in crop space for other plants, according to Naylor.

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

4. To combat the human end of the imperfect system, marketers add ______ to their raw product -- making it a novelty.

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

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