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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight through Chapter Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The pastures are filled with native grasses that actually benefit from ____________.
(a) Grazing.
(b) Fertilizers.
(c) Organic yogurt.
(d) Mowing.

2. What store does Pollan go to in order to begin creating a store-purchased organic meal?
(a) Trader Joe's.
(b) Whole Foods.
(c) Cassandra's.
(d) Richard's Organic Foods.

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

4. Salatin points out that being ________ doesn't necessarily mean that a farm is also going to be sustainable.
(a) Organic.
(b) Gathering.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Natural.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduced the idea of using corn to the English settlers?

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

3. _________ Farm started out as a small farm that sold pre-bagged salad mix, according to the book.

4. Humans are not a perfect natural system in the food system because they can only _______ so much food.

5. What is NOT one of the threads of the worldwide food chain that humans fit into?

(see the answer key)

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