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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hybrid corn is a __________ hog, according to this chapter, and is able to be grown without disruption of fertility issues.
(a) Fertilizer.
(b) Water.
(c) Bean.
(d) Soil.

2. Humans are not a perfect natural system in the food system because they can only _______ so much food.
(a) Consume.
(b) Make.
(c) Throw away.
(d) Buy.

3. _________ changed the way that humans ate, and put humans at the top of the food chain.
(a) Stores.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Gathering.
(d) Hunting.

4. ________ help pair foods that complement one another not just in flavor, but in use as well.
(a) Cuisines.
(b) Medicine men.
(c) Meal plans.
(d) Dieticians.

5. Many of the products at the health store where Pollan shops contain foods from the _________ food chain.
(a) Local farmer.
(b) Grass.
(c) Organic.
(d) Industrial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan tries to be vegetarian, but gives it up as he finds it less ________ and much more difficult.

2. Humans also overcame their _________ in plants through cooking, grinding, or soaking the foods.

3. Who has helped Bev out by giving him a lot of produce to get by?

4. Pollan believes that the hunter and gatherer food chain is the most ___________.

5. _________ foods are those that are generally recognized to be toxic to humans.

(see the answer key)

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