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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. It is not uncommon today to have all family members eating ___________ at different times.
(a) Easy to digest foods.
(b) The same foods.
(c) Bland foods.
(d) Different foods.

2. The local food movement doesn't have to combat ___________; it simply offers an alternative, according to Pollan.
(a) Hunting and gathering.
(b) Disease.
(c) Industrialization.
(d) Organic foods.

3. Store purchased foods, according to Salatin, do not take into consideration environmental and health ________.
(a) Movements.
(b) Instructions.
(c) Costs.
(d) Benefits.

4. Some believe that human ________ is different from that of animals because humans are capable of suffering.
(a) Eating.
(b) Relationships.
(c) Pain.
(d) Existence.

5. 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) Disgust.
(b) Shame.
(c) Terror.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pollan has never ________ before he begins the new opportunity to learn about food chains.

2. The tart is made with _________ from Pollan's neighbor's garden as a dessert.

3. Neither being ignorant or aware is a completely _________ way of eating in the world today.

4. _________ changed the way that humans ate, and put humans at the top of the food chain.

5. Pollan begins to understand that eating the meat is the final act of the __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pollan suggest that our intelligence allows a person to do that an animal cannot?

2. What is the reason why Garro hunts for the food in the woods?

3. What does Pollan attempt to do as he is reading the book "Animal Liberation"?

4. Why do humans seem to eat what other humans eat, according to Pollan?

5. What is the irony that Pollan sees when he is looking over the delicious meal?

6. What does Ortega y Gasset have to say about the idea of hunting?

7. What do omnivores do when they are faced with a new food?

8. What does Salatin suggest stores should do with their food which might make consumers shop differently?

9. Why does Pollan think that the hunter-gatherer food chain is not a realistic choice?

10. How does Pollan change his eating habits after reading "Animal Liberation"?

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