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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Fifteen through Chapter Sixteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _________ changed the way that humans ate, and put humans at the top of the food chain.
(a) Stores.
(b) Gathering.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Cooking.

2. Pollan argues that ______ should be the basis for a new revolution, since it is what sustains and helps define culture.
(a) Farms.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Books.
(d) Food.

3. Corn is also self _______ and wind pollinated, which is a process that Pollan describes in detail.
(a) Pollinated.
(b) Growing.
(c) Spread.
(d) Fertilized.

4. Salatin points out that being ________ doesn't necessarily mean that a farm is also going to be sustainable.
(a) Natural.
(b) Gathering.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Organic.

5. As a result of the new government agreement, the market is flooded with _______ corn.
(a) Blue.
(b) High quality.
(c) Cheap.
(d) Purple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Naylor avoid when he is growing his crop on his farm?

2. What is the name of the person that Pollan goes with to deliver the foods to local restaurants?

3. 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.

4. The local food movement doesn't have to combat ___________; it simply offers an alternative, according to Pollan.

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

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