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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 is the name of the person that Pollan goes with to deliver the foods to local restaurants?
(a) Bill.
(b) Hugh.
(c) Bev.
(d) Art.

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

3. Pollan is disgusted when he looks at a picture of himself with his kill and sees ________.
(a) A somber expression.
(b) Blood.
(c) The eyes of the boar.
(d) His grin.

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

5. Pollan wants to create a meal in full ________ of the foods involved and how they came to be on his table.
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Transparency.
(c) Truth.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Salatin disagrees with the idea that organic food is ___________.

2. Pollan wants to say ________ to the animals for the meal, but realizes this is already in the meal.

3. Who did Pollan ask for a detailed account of what happens when a steer is processed?

4. Garro chops up the meat from the pig Pollan made, and they make a __________ for lunch.

5. What does Pollan need to prepare for that allows him to become more aware of his natural surroundings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pollan begin to experience after a day of hunting for a wild boar?

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

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

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

5. Why does Salatin disagree with the argument that organic food costs too much?

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

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

8. What is the fundamental argument in Singer's book about the ethics of meat?

9. What are some of the ways in which humans have learned to overcome the plant's defenses?

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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