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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the writing of this book, who is the current CEO of McDonald's Corporation?
(a) Thomas Macon.
(b) Ray Kroc.
(c) Jack Greenberg.
(d) Mike Eisner.

2. The 1980 Education Act eliminates government subsidies for ___________.
(a) Nutritious school meals.
(b) Proper refirdgeration in schools.
(c) Pencils.
(d) Milk at lunch.

3. What is now the favorite drink among Chinese children?
(a) Dr. Pepper.
(b) Rice milk.
(c) Coca-cola.
(d) Soy milk.

4. Which other German city is less heavily bombed in World War II by the Allies, but sustains more damage?
(a) Frankfurt.
(b) Munich.
(c) Dresden.
(d) Hamburg.

5. Who was the newly elected governor of Nebraska told by Mike Harper that his company needed more tax breaks or it would pick up shop and leave the state?
(a) Tom Daschel.
(b) John Murkowski.
(c) Nancy Pelosi.
(d) Kay Orr.

6. What is the job title of a worker in a packinghouse who pulls the stomach out of a steer and ties off the intestines?
(a) A roper.
(b) An innard cowboy.
(c) A reacher.
(d) A gutter.

7. Where do some meatpacking workers cook little bits of meat on a shift?
(a) In their hard hads.
(b) In their sterilizers.
(c) On the converyer belt motor.
(d) On the cremator.

8. What is the name of the small electric knives with spinning, round blades that workers use to carve meat?
(a) Carver.
(b) Slingblade.
(c) Whizzard.
(d) Sectioner.

9. In 1993, who becomes the first Latino head of the UFCW in Packingtown (Chicago)?
(a) Ruben Ramirez.
(b) Simon Gutierrez.
(c) Alex Molnar.
(d) Ramon Vasquez.

10. During the communist rule of East Germany, the successful manufacturing of what product causes high pollution in the city?
(a) Cotton paper.
(b) Synthetic wool.
(c) Battery acid.
(d) Flax seed oil.

11. In the 1920's, Plauen has the most millionaires in Germany and the most _____.
(a) Marriages.
(b) Schitzel restaurants.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Suicides.

12. Who writes the book, The Jungle, in 1906?
(a) John Updike.
(b) Mary Shelley.
(c) Upton Sinclair.
(d) Henry Miller.

13. What item collected from restaurants in 1997 is banned from being fed to cattle by the FDA?
(a) Leftover cheese.
(b) Paper.
(c) Plate waste.
(d) Spoiled produce.

14. Which health secretary surprises the British Parliament by declaring that mad cow disease might jump species and infect humans?
(a) Danny Alexander.
(b) Stephen Dorrell.
(c) Gregory Barker.
(d) Alistair Carmichael.

15. What does McDonald's call its hope for the conquest of foreign markets?
(a) The Burger Wave.
(b) International foodism.
(c) Global realization.
(d) World domination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term for how illegals are generally employed?

2. What are long-haired, working class German fans of American heavy metal music called in Plauen?

3. What are the apron and gloves made of that workers put on to protect themselves from knife wounds?

4. What is the other name for mad cow disease from the book?

5. What does the "knocker" use to shoot the live cattle in the head as they enter the building?

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