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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) Instructions.
(b) Costs.
(c) Movements.
(d) Benefits.

2. Americans can develop an eating culture that allows omnivores to eat without _____, according to Pollan, and with full consciousness.
(a) Fear.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Pain.
(d) Dread.

3. Industrial communities sell __________, while the artisinal sells a special product.
(a) Manpower.
(b) Marketing.
(c) Commodities.
(d) Resources.

4. Bev notes that he only has to sell the idea of the ______ in order to sell the higher priced food.
(a) Organics.
(b) Farm.
(c) Fertilizer.
(d) Health benefits.

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) Terror.
(c) Anger.
(d) Shame.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Peter's Singer's book that informs the beginning of this chapter?

2. 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.

3. Depending on how the animals were ________, different foods can contain different amounts of omega fatty acids.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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