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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Synthetic _______, invented by Fritz Haber as a side effect of his work on bombs in Germany, meant that crops could be grown without care about the amount of this substance on the Earth.
(a) Potassium.
(b) Hydrogen.
(c) Phosphorus.
(d) Nitrogen.

4. To combat the human end of the imperfect system, marketers add ______ to their raw product -- making it a novelty.
(a) Sugars.
(b) Prices.
(c) Value.
(d) Packaging.

5. The grass also gets a chance to ________ when the cattle is moved around.
(a) Die.
(b) Recover.
(c) Move.
(d) Grow.

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

7. The factories from the war time began to produce ________ for farmers to help with their crops.
(a) Organic blends.
(b) GMOs.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Fertilizers.

8. What helps to reduce evaporation in the fields, and help to produce more carbon for the plants in the farm?
(a) Cows.
(b) Waters.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Trees.

9. Pollan looks over the land and it makes him think of _________, which is something marketers now try to sell.
(a) Family.
(b) Ancient.
(c) Postcard.
(d) Pastoral.

10. Corn is one of the only plants that is adaptable to _________.
(a) Hybridization.
(b) Pesticides.
(c) Drought.
(d) Weather.

11. What does Naylor avoid when he is growing his crop on his farm?
(a) Water.
(b) Government help.
(c) GMOs.
(d) Subsidies.

12. Corn ________ early on to mass produce, but this also made the plant dependent on humans and animals.
(a) Died.
(b) Reproduced.
(c) Mutated.
(d) Grew.

13. By _______, the government became involved in the organic market, as it sought to define what it meant to be organic.
(a) 1970.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1990.
(d) 2000.

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

15. The Naylor farm has turned from a diverse farm to one that has become a _________ production mecca.
(a) Soybean.
(b) Corn.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Barley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the once trash strewn park that was turned into a community garden?

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

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

4. Salatin pushes for the right to opt out of ____________ of his farm, according to the book.

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

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