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

2. Pollan tries to be vegetarian, but gives it up as he finds it less ________ and much more difficult.
(a) Exciting.
(b) Nutritious.
(c) Innovative.
(d) Socially acceptable.

3. Pollan notes that the last meal serves as a reminder of the fact that eating industrially lets people _________ the massive total cost of the food they eat.
(a) Supplement.
(b) Add to.
(c) Forget.
(d) Avoid.

4. What is Pollan eating when he attempts to read Peter Singer's book?
(a) Fish.
(b) Steak.
(c) McDonald's.
(d) A salad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Pairing raw fish with _______ makes sense as this condiment had antibacterial properties.

2. What do Pollan and Garro decide to go out to hunt at the start of the chapter?

3. What is the name of the person that Pollan goes with to deliver the foods to local restaurants?

4. Bev sells to _______ worried about their children, and for those choosing to opt out of the industrial system.

5. Pollan thinks that if stores had to include __________ of how an item was produced, people would change their eating habits.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Pollan surprised about when he begins to eat the meal that he has prepared?

3. Why is Pollan disgusted by the picture of him with a pig that he hunted?

4. What does Pollan try to make, but then decides that he shouldn't use it because it doesn't seem right?

5. What is the other part of the meal that Pollan has to abandon as a part of his plan?

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

7. What does Pollan feel when a boar is right before him and his gun was not cocked?

8. Why is Bev having troubles getting his eggs into stores and into the market?

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

10. What is in the meal that Pollan makes at the end of this section, which he describes as being phenomenal?

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