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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which packing house owner is one of the two people from Colorado to be put on President Nixon's enemy list?

3. What chemicals described in The Jungle are used to disguise the smell of spoiled beef?

4. What is now the favorite drink among Chinese children?

5. Who writes the book, The Jungle, in 1906?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What new production method developed by IBP causes skilled, unionized supermarket butchers to be fired?

5. How are most jobs performed in the beef industry and how is it different than the poultry industry?

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

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

8. Why is the impact of fast food readily apparent in Germany?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What effect does IBP have on the meat-packing industry? How does the nature of labor change in the meat-packing industry? Who are the major players involved and how does their involvement contribute to the company's getting into legal trouble?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the sales pitch given to the city of Lexington, Nebraska by IBP to get citizens to allow a slaughterhouse be built there. How was this sales pitch a far cry from the reality that Lexington lives with today?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the inherent conflict of interest between franchisees and franchisors. Include references to the way in which Subway obtains franchisees and the concept of encroachment.

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