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

2. Wallerstein originally worked for a _______ where he learned he could entice people to buy more with larger sizes.
(a) Movie theater.
(b) University.
(c) Restaurant.
(d) Library.

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

4. To help combat how much a person can eat, the food industry has created ________ starch that can allow people to eat more.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Liquid.
(c) Resistant.
(d) Combatant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Corn takes in more carbon _______ during the process of photosynthesis than other plants.

2. Pollan points out that the Republic of _______ exists today because of all of the excess corn in the market.

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

4. What do many farmers rely on in order to create higher yields at their farms?

5. Corn is also self _______ and wind pollinated, which is a process that Pollan describes in detail.

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