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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. As the food companies produced more corn, they create more _________ as it is cheaper than sugar.
(a) Corn oil.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Artificial sweeteners.
(d) High fructose corn syrup.

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

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

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

5. To combat the human end of the imperfect system, marketers add ______ to their raw product -- making it a novelty.
(a) Value.
(b) Prices.
(c) Packaging.
(d) Sugars.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Pollan points out during the book that omnivores face a __________ when they eat today.

4. What is NOT one of the parts of corn that is separated out in the newly used process?

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

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