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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five through Chapter Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A new program was introduced to pay the farmers directly for the difference in price between the target and the selling price of ________.
(a) Soybeans.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Barley.
(d) Corn.

2. Since they don't have to worry about nitrogen, farmers no longer have to ________ their crops to ensure soil fertility.
(a) Salt.
(b) Plant.
(c) Weed.
(d) Rotate.

3. Pollan points out that the industrial method of farming has led to increased ________ and polluted groundwater.
(a) Oil wells.
(b) Energy.
(c) Food supplies.
(d) Pollution.

4. To help combat how much a person can eat, the food industry has created ________ starch that can allow people to eat more.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Resistant.
(c) Liquid.
(d) Combatant.

5. Synthetic _______, invented by Fritz Haber as a side effect of his work on bombs in Germany, meant that crops could be grown without care about the amount of this substance on the Earth.
(a) Phosphorus.
(b) Hydrogen.
(c) Nitrogen.
(d) Potassium.

Short Answer Questions

1. The factories from the war time began to produce ________ for farmers to help with their crops.

2. Hybrid corn is a __________ hog, according to this chapter, and is able to be grown without disruption of fertility issues.

3. What is NOT one of the parts of corn that is separated out in the newly used process?

4. Where does Pollan take his family at the end of this section of the book?

5. Pollan hopes to bring the reader back to their original _______ of food.

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