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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Supporting farms help animals to have safer lives than they might have in the ________, according to Pollan.
(a) Wild.
(b) Zoo.
(c) Market.
(d) City.

2. In what part of the body can one determine just how much corn is being eaten by the person?
(a) Nails.
(b) Hair.
(c) Flesh.
(d) Teeth.

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

4. There are parts of the world, Pollan points out, where the only use of the land is for _______, otherwise it would be useless.
(a) Grazing.
(b) Moving.
(c) Display.
(d) Farming.

5. What does the farmer use to cover the chicken waste in the compost pile?
(a) Soil.
(b) Wood chips.
(c) Apples.
(d) Manure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Pollan eating when he attempts to read Peter Singer's book?

3. Pollan points out during the book that omnivores face a __________ when they eat today.

4. To combat the human end of the imperfect system, marketers add ______ to their raw product -- making it a novelty.

5. Bentham makes the argument that if there are some humans that lack the brainpower of a ________, why are they still included in the moral argument?

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