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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Fifteen through Chapter Sixteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Every day, Salatin moves his cattle to a new _________ every day to ensure balance.
(a) Pasture.
(b) Row.
(c) Pen.
(d) Farm.

2. A new economy, based on a new way of __________, demands a new kind of eating where people enjoy preparing meals.
(a) Delivering.
(b) Farming.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Buying.

3. What is the name of the person who began to take away the programs to help the farmers?
(a) Earl Butz.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) Ed Burrow.

4. Pollan has never ________ before he begins the new opportunity to learn about food chains.
(a) Hunted.
(b) Baked.
(c) Cooked.
(d) Stolen.

5. What takes corn meal, corn starch, and corn sweetener to make?
(a) Breakfast cereal.
(b) Quiche.
(c) Hamburgers.
(d) Cheese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Corn ________ early on to mass produce, but this also made the plant dependent on humans and animals.

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

3. Many of the products at the health store where Pollan shops contain foods from the _________ food chain.

4. Each acre of corn, according to Pollan needs to have _________ gallons of fossil fuel to support it.

5. The manure of the _______ is spread on all of the pastures without fouling the pasture with too many droppings.

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