Fast Food Nation Quiz - Introduction

What is NOT something the book  mentions we spend less on than fast food?

• Higher Education
• Computer Software
• New Cars
• New Homes

Fast Food is worth studying because it has transformed America in ___________, landscape, economy, workforce and _______________________.

• Diet, Popular Culture
• Diet, Education
• Effort, Popular Culture
• Effort, Education

What is the most famous brand?

• Fast Food
• Chris
• McDonald's
• Pizza Hut

What does the reading say about independent farmers?

• They are more in demand because of the increased demand for fast food
• They are a truly vanishing breed
• Independent farmers are becoming wealthy off the business with fast food
• When fast food first began the food was purchased from large corporations, however, independent farmers are now where they get a large portion of their food

McDonalds is the largest purchaser of what?

• Beef, pork, chicken
• Beef, chicken, potatoes
• Beef, pork, potatoes
• Chicken, potatoes, pork 

Family farms are being replaced by what? 

• Corporate farms with the owners involved in each step of the process
• Wealthy middle class farmers
• Small town group farmers
• Corporate farms with absentee owners

Farmers and cattle ranchers are losing their independence, essentially becoming what for agribusiness giants?

• Owners who are controlled by large corporations
• Micro-Managed 
• Hired Hands
• Fired

How has the author said the issues have changed the meat packing industry?

• Dangerous job in the US
• Was once for highly skilled workers and they were highly paid
• Done by immigrants and poor whose injuries go unrecorded and uncompensated 
• All of these 

Why did the author write this book?

• So people know what lies behind the shiny, happy surface of every fast food transaction
• So people know the issues companies have caused society
• So people are aware of the dangerous jobs individuals are forced to perform for low wages
• So people are aware of how fast food is changing the way Americans farm and make a business farming

What did the author notice about small towns because of fast food increase?

• Small towns are disappearing and turning into big towns because of the arrival of fast food, or disappearing
• Small towns have lost their wealthy classes because they choose to live some place with more opportunities
• Small towns have a small wealthy percentage and a large percentage of poor
• Small towns are becoming more like Norman Rockwell paintings