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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. Where does Pollan find himself first questioning what the food on the market is made of?
(a) Forest.
(b) Supermarket.
(c) Farm.
(d) Camp.

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

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

4. As the food companies produced more corn, they create more _________ as it is cheaper than sugar.
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Corn oil.
(c) Artificial sweeteners.
(d) High fructose corn syrup.

5. Pollan points out during the book that omnivores face a __________ when they eat today.
(a) Problem.
(b) Overabundance.
(c) Truth.
(d) Dilemma.

Short Answer 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 ________.

2. Humans are not a perfect natural system in the food system because they can only _______ so much food.

3. Wallerstein originally worked for a _______ where he learned he could entice people to buy more with larger sizes.

4. 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.

5. The push for corn has also led to the industrialization of _______ farms, according to Naylor.

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