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

2. What is NOT one of the things that humans consult in order to determine what they will and will not eat?
(a) Culture.
(b) Taste.
(c) Animals.
(d) Memory.

3. What is NOT one of the parts of corn that is separated out in the newly used process?
(a) Stalk.
(b) Endosperm.
(c) Skin.
(d) Germ.

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

5. What were the programs that were set up in order to help farmers during the rougher years?
(a) HSA.
(b) New Deal.
(c) FFA.
(d) FSA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Corn is also able to limit the ______ lost during the process of photosynthesis, according to the book.

2. Corn is one of the only plants that is adaptable to _________.

3. Where is the farm that George Naylor runs when Pollan goes to visit him to learn more?

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

5. Over time, corn has become everything humans need to be a staple of the _________ food chain.

(see the answer key)

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