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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 bacteria in milk digest to cause fermentation?

2. What method of preparing eggs does the author not recommend?

3. What family is spinach a member of?

4. What does heat treatment kill in the milk?

5. What part of the egg is the most nutritious?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do people generally freeze fish before serving it raw?

2. How should one hard boil an egg?

3. How does the author think meat has developed humans?

4. Why is fish oil so important in our development?

5. How has McGee changed the second edition of the book?

6. How does one make margarine?

7. What are the three basic ingredients of cheese?

8. What are roots and tubers?

9. What were the early methods of preserving meat?

10. What is the difference between winter and summer squashes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the following groups make up for the lack of meat and other products in their diets.

1. Vegans.

2. Vegetarians.

3. Fruitarians.

Essay Topic 2

What are the four basic food molecules? Why is it important to know the four basic food molecules?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following countries and examine how that food has helped shape the nation's identity.

1. Japan.

2. USA.

3. France.

4. Britain.

5. Spain.

6. Italy.

7. India.

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