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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. The increased ______ of corn has meant a drop in crop space for other plants, according to Naylor.
(a) Production.
(b) Use.
(c) Mutation.
(d) Planting.

2. Hybrid corn is a __________ hog, according to this chapter, and is able to be grown without disruption of fertility issues.
(a) Soil.
(b) Bean.
(c) Water.
(d) Fertilizer.

3. What is the ingredient that is broken into glucose and sweeteners, including high fructose corn syrup?
(a) Corn husks.
(b) Corn starch.
(c) Corn mallow.
(d) Corn meal.

4. The farm and the human are two ________ natural systems that the food industry relies on.
(a) Perfect.
(b) Imperfect.
(c) Malleable.
(d) Complicated.

5. Each acre of corn, according to Pollan needs to have _________ gallons of fossil fuel to support it.
(a) 50.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 29.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do all of the parts of the corn end up in as a result of the new process to separate its parts?

2. As the food companies produced more corn, they create more _________ as it is cheaper than sugar.

3. A new program was introduced to pay the farmers directly for the difference in price between the target and the selling price of ________.

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

5. Corn ________ early on to mass produce, but this also made the plant dependent on humans and animals.

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