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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eighteen through Chapter Nineteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Naylor avoid when he is growing his crop on his farm?
(a) Water.
(b) GMOs.
(c) Subsidies.
(d) Government help.

2. In a bad corn year, the food industry might use __________ as a replacement in many foods.
(a) Salt.
(b) Wheat.
(c) Soybeans.
(d) Baking soda.

3. How many boars do Pollan and the others find when they go back to hunt after lunch?
(a) None.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

4. Where is the farm that George Naylor runs when Pollan goes to visit him to learn more?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Nebraska.

5. A new economy, based on a new way of __________, demands a new kind of eating where people enjoy preparing meals.
(a) Delivering.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Farming.
(d) Buying.

Short Answer Questions

1. In many CAFOs, the _______ of pigs are cut off in response to the aggressive behavior they have in those conditions.

2. Pollan thinks that if stores had to include __________ of how an item was produced, people would change their eating habits.

3. Who did Pollan ask for a detailed account of what happens when a steer is processed?

4. The farm and the human are two ________ natural systems that the food industry relies on.

5. Pollan notes that one of the lessons of hunting for food is _________, and of the relationships between man and food.

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