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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten through Chapter Twelve.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Pollan points out that the industrial method of farming has led to increased ________ and polluted groundwater.
(a) Food supplies.
(b) Energy.
(c) Oil wells.
(d) Pollution.

3. What do many farmers rely on in order to create higher yields at their farms?
(a) GMOs.
(b) Pesticides.
(c) Water.
(d) Fertilizers.

4. What does Pollan begin helping Salatin do when this chapter begins?
(a) Milk a cow.
(b) Weed the land.
(c) Make hay.
(d) Add fertilizer.

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) Sugars.
(d) Packaging.

Short Answer Questions

1. Salatin's is an _________ farm, dedicated to the old agrarian ideas of how things should be grown.

2. Salatin points out that being ________ doesn't necessarily mean that a farm is also going to be sustainable.

3. Salatin doesn't follow the USDA guidelines by processing his _________ in an open air building without any walls.

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

5. Every day, the ________ pens are moved to ensure that the droppings spread evenly.

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