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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Overcoming human senses had sometimes been vital, as in the case of bitter ______________.
(a) Spices.
(b) Teas.
(c) Medicinal plants.
(d) Meats.

2. Buying local foods grown in a __________ manner underwrites a set of values important to the people.
(a) Sustainable.
(b) Plentiful.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Organic.

3. Pollan points out that humans are happy to eat what _________ eat, as this communicates the safety of food.
(a) Books say to.
(b) Teachers say to.
(c) Other humans.
(d) Cooking shows.

4. Pollan thinks that if stores had to include __________ of how an item was produced, people would change their eating habits.
(a) Movies.
(b) Photos.
(c) Stories.
(d) Numbers.

5. What was the primary emotion that Pollan feels when he shoots and kills his first boar?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Anger.
(c) Shame.
(d) Happiness.

6. Pollan doesn't feel the same about the picture a few months later and wonders which emotion is more accurate - the happiness or the ________.
(a) Terror.
(b) Disgust.
(c) Shame.
(d) Anger.

7. Bev notes that he only has to sell the idea of the ______ in order to sell the higher priced food.
(a) Fertilizer.
(b) Farm.
(c) Health benefits.
(d) Organics.

8. Both food that is prepared and harvested as well as that from a store should be a part of an occasional _______ meal.
(a) Reminder.
(b) Dinner.
(c) Ritual.
(d) Birthday.

9. What is the number of the steer that Pollan has picked out for his meal?
(a) 1489.
(b) 243.
(c) 2891.
(d) 534.

10. Who has helped Bev out by giving him a lot of produce to get by?
(a) No one.
(b) Pollan.
(c) Salatin.
(d) Naylor.

11. Bentham makes the argument that if there are some humans that lack the brainpower of a ________, why are they still included in the moral argument?
(a) Horse.
(b) Chimp.
(c) Cow.
(d) Fish.

12. Pollan believes that the hunter and gatherer food chain is the most ___________.
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Inopportune.
(c) Inconvenient.
(d) Truthful.

13. There are parts of the world, Pollan points out, where the only use of the land is for _______, otherwise it would be useless.
(a) Grazing.
(b) Display.
(c) Moving.
(d) Farming.

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

15. The family _______, one of the remaining parts of America's food culture, is in decline, according to Pollan.
(a) Dinner.
(b) Tea.
(c) Supper.
(d) Breakfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. The local food movement doesn't have to combat ___________; it simply offers an alternative, according to Pollan.

2. What does Pollan do with Garro, even though he has to turn away from disgust at one point?

3. Pollan notes that the end meal was _______ for him, according to the book.

4. A new economy, based on a new way of __________, demands a new kind of eating where people enjoy preparing meals.

5. Pollan notes that one of the lessons of hunting for food is _________, and of the relationships between man and food.

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