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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. Which company required that meatpacking houses slaughter cattle more humanely or lose their business?
(a) Wendy's.
(b) McDonald's.
(c) Boston Market.
(d) Taco Bell.

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

3. Which variant of mad cow disease literally destroys the brains of ten young people in Britain?
(a) Calicivirus.
(b) Creutzfeldt-Jakob.
(c) Norwalk virus.
(d) Campylobacter.

4. Companies from which country have bought Chrysler, Random House, and RCA Records?
(a) Germany.
(b) Japan.
(c) England.
(d) France.

5. What type of toxin is released form E. coli O157-H7?
(a) An alpha-toxin.
(b) A Shiga toxin.
(c) A Diphtheria toxin.
(d) A pyrogenic exotoxin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group quickly agrees to a large pay cut for its workers when Monfort takes over a Grand Island, Nebraska slaughterhouse?

2. In 1988, a panel from which organization warns that the nation's public health infrastructure is in serious disarray, limiting its ability to track or prevent the spread of newly emerging pathogens?

3. The sections of beef known as chucks, loins, ribs, and rounds are known as _______.

4. What do some workers need to make themselves feel charged up and self-confident?

5. During the communist rule of East Germany, the successful manufacturing of what product causes high pollution in the city?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does East German parliament member, Ernst Doerfler, call for a ban on McDonald's in East Germany?

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. How does World War I destroy the culture of Plauen, Germany?

5. How does the McDonald's Corporation review Fast Food Nation?

6. Why is the high turnover rate in the meatpacking industry not a concern for large companies?

7. How does the vegetarian community react when it is brought to light that there is a beef additive in the McDonald's french fries?

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

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

10. How does In-N-Out Burger do business differently than other restaurants?

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