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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. What does Bev deal in that is causing him a lot of financial problems?
(a) Kale.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Cows.

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

3. What would the company that raised Pollan's steer not allow him to do?
(a) Come to see the farm.
(b) Pay for his steer.
(c) Watch it be processed.
(d) Take any notes.

4. Activists appear to look at the __________ animal, which is not applicable to the natural world.
(a) Relationship of an.
(b) Distinct.
(c) Species of an.
(d) Individual.

5. Gasset points out to Pollan that he believes _________ returned humans back to nature, and Pollan agrees.
(a) The econony.
(b) The New Age movement.
(c) The organic farmers.
(d) Hunting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Some believe that human ________ is different from that of animals because humans are capable of suffering.

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

4. What does Pollan admit he liked more than he had anticipated liking?

5. Pollan also have to abandon his idea of an abalone ____________ in his meal.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Pollan point out about the loss of meat in one's diet?

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

9. What are the eating patterns in many American households today?

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

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