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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Since they don't have to worry about nitrogen, farmers no longer have to ________ their crops to ensure soil fertility.
(a) Rotate.
(b) Plant.
(c) Salt.
(d) Weed.

3. What is the underlying foundation of the entire Salatin farm, according to Pollan?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Grass.
(c) Corn.
(d) Chickens.

4. The manure of the _______ is spread on all of the pastures without fouling the pasture with too many droppings.
(a) Horse.
(b) Goat.
(c) Pig.
(d) Cow.

5. What is NOT one of the threads of the worldwide food chain that humans fit into?
(a) The organic chain.
(b) The dairy market.
(c) The industrial chain.
(d) The hunter-gatherer chain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan learns that most organic _______ comes from factory farms, even though they seem to be "better."

2. What does the farmer use to cover the chicken waste in the compost pile?

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.

4. Corn is also able to limit the ______ lost during the process of photosynthesis, according to the book.

5. Salatin's ______ invented many of the methods of farming that are used on the farm today.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is another impact of the push for corn in farming, related to another type of industrialized food supply?

2. Why are the chicken pens slowly moved around the pasture during the day?

3. What did Pollan feel about the meal that he had that was made from all organic foods?

4. Why do humans have the problem of the omnivore's dilemma, according to Pollan?

5. What happens during the wet mill process of processing corn?

6. What does Pollan point out as being the ingredients that are in a common breakfast cereal?

7. What does the lack of a good culture in America cause among people?

8. What does Pollan point out as a downside of there being more organic farms around today?

9. What are some of the other creatures and ingredients that are a part of the picture of the natural cow eating the natural grass?

10. What does Pollan point out is the start of any of the foods in the food chain, which came as a surprise to him?

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