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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The modern CAFO does not take into consideration the _________ of an animal when processing them.
(a) Situation.
(b) Family.
(c) Pain.
(d) Generations.

2. Pollan makes __________ toasts from the produce in his garden and bread that uses yeast he has gathered.
(a) Kale.
(b) Fava bean.
(c) Tomato.
(d) Potato.

3. Pollan doesn't feel the same about the picture a few months later and wonders which emotion is more accurate - the happiness or the ________.
(a) Anger.
(b) Shame.
(c) Terror.
(d) Disgust.

4. What was the primary emotion that Pollan feels when he shoots and kills his first boar?
(a) Anger.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Shame.

5. What is the herbal tea that Pollan makes to help finish off the meal he has made?
(a) Fig.
(b) Chamomile.
(c) Mint.
(d) Lavender.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bev sells to _______ worried about their children, and for those choosing to opt out of the industrial system.

2. Pollan notes that the last meal serves as a reminder of the fact that eating industrially lets people _________ the massive total cost of the food they eat.

3. Pairing raw fish with _______ makes sense as this condiment had antibacterial properties.

4. Americans can develop an eating culture that allows omnivores to eat without _____, according to Pollan, and with full consciousness.

5. __________ is another tool that humans use to decide if a food is good to eat, which helps to avoid foods that smell rotten.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Salatin disagree with the argument that organic food costs too much?

2. Why is Bev having troubles getting his eggs into stores and into the market?

3. What does Garro bring to the meal that Pollan has already asked him to bring?

4. What does Ortega y Gasset have to say about the idea of hunting?

5. What is the other part of the meal that Pollan has to abandon as a part of his plan?

6. What is in the meal that Pollan makes at the end of this section, which he describes as being phenomenal?

7. What does Pollan suggest that our intelligence allows a person to do that an animal cannot?

8. What are some of the ways in which humans have learned to overcome the plant's defenses?

9. Where can Pollan buy some of the Salatin farm's produce?

10. Why is there a national eating disorder, according to Pollan's findings?

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