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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. Who was elected for a second term in the 1999 Colorado Springs mayoral race?
(a) Anne Summers.
(b) Mary Lou Makepeace.
(c) Roger Townsend.
(d) Mike Harper.

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

3. Rich Conway helps run which family business?
(a) Red Top Restaurant.
(b) Monfort.
(c) Red X grocery.
(d) Lasater Ranch.

4. What is the name of the "labor consultant" from New York City who meets with IBP and has close ties to La Cosa Nostra?
(a) Al Capone.
(b) Tom Pendergast.
(c) Moe Stenman.
(d) John Gotti.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Cattle manure is not sent to waste treatment plants but dumped into ______.

3. The East German Secret Police are called ______.

4. How many pounds of ground beef can a single infected animal contaminate with E. coli O157:H7?

5. The Titan II missiles at which company's plant northwest of Colorado Springs were originally designed to carry nuclear warheads?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does one of Dale Lasater's grandfather's do to fight against the Beef Trust?

2. What is the scariest job performed by the late-night cleaning crew and why?

3. Why does Sandra Gallegos disagree with Lee Harding's assumption that he got E. coli poisoning from a chicken taco at a Mexican restaurant?

4. Why do meatpacking workers routinely develop cumulative trauma disorders?

5. Why does the author say that the "market" is a tool?

6. What is the difference between good E.coli and bad E. coli?

7. What percentage of the American population suffers a bout of food poisoning each year?

8. Why is grain-fed beef preferable to grass-fed beef?

9. How does a friend of Jesus, a late-night cleaning crew member, react when he enters the rendering room and why?

10. What was the most popular meat in America before World War II and why did that change?

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