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

2. What does Pollan decide that he wants to gather from a local pond, though he ends up not using it?
(a) Algae.
(b) Salt.
(c) Mushroom.
(d) Seaweed.

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

4. Pollan sees some mushrooms which he believes to be ___________, though he is not sure enough to eat them.
(a) Morel.
(b) Ordinary.
(c) Chanterelles.
(d) Reishi.

5. Bev sells to _______ worried about their children, and for those choosing to opt out of the industrial system.
(a) Priests.
(b) Young mothers.
(c) Young brothers.
(d) Young fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The hunter's _______ is the feeling of everything coming into sharp focus, and Pollan feels this during his first day.

2. What was the primary emotion that Pollan feels when he shoots and kills his first boar?

3. Singer argues that a lifetime of __________ for an animal does not justify the pleasure of a man's taste buds.

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

5. It is not uncommon today to have all family members eating ___________ at different times.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Garro bring to the meal that Pollan has already asked him to bring?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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