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Food studies is characterized by

applied and/or transformative work

a multi-level systems approach

a transdisciplinary approach

all of the above

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2

What are the main reasons for the creation of food banks

It came about because there were food crisis amongst low income family

We have too much food in the community

For charitable reasons, where local farmers wanted to donate

For the needs of immigrants and new comers

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3

During the articulation period in the history of cookbooks,

the home economics profession was born

culinary authorities began to establish themselves in their own right and not as
corporate spokespeople
 titles more often included the word “Canadian”

a and b only

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4

Cookbooks claim MULTIPLE authoritative sources:

Objective authority of science and innovation

first hand experience in the kitchen

rigourous tests performed in industry food labs

intimate understanting of the tastes and inclinations of the home food provider
and her family

all of the above

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5

What statement is true about neoliberalism and health?

Represents a shift in the burden of healthcare from the state to the citizen

Promotes the free market economy i.e. capitalism

Fosters equity in health care

Relies on private industry to provide services

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Food regimes

focuses on top-down analysis

privileges commodity studies

combines commodity studies and world-systems analysis

identify long periods of commodity price stability only

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7

Critical weight studies

examine popular myths about fatness

ask questions about why long-standing research on body weight has not been
included in health discourse

challenges the reductionist perspective on food, eating, and body weight

all of the above

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8

Why do teenagers have fluid discourses regarding healthy eating?

Because they want to do better in school

Because they don't know any better

 Because they want to establish autonomy

This statement is false. Teenagers do not have fluid discourses.

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9

What are the environmental effects of continuing a reliance on intensive livestock operations?

Land degradation and air pollution

Water shortages and water pollution

Loss of biodiversity and climate change

All of these are negative effects of our reliance on ILOs

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10

Habitus is NOT

the commodification and commercialization of structure.

bridging of structure and agency.

source of tastes, attitudes, and behaviours.

located within context-specific social fields.

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11

Which statement is FALSE about intensive livestock operations?

 Produce 95% of the 700 animals killed for food annually in Canada

Involve high stocking densities and close confinement of animals

Involve low mechanization and high labour requirements

Employ forced growth rates

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12

Ideology is

the complex systems of language, ideas, and beliefs

politically influential

informed by power and knowledge

all of the above

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13

Commodity studies

is concerned with organizational bureaucracies governing food systems

focuses on specific foods such as sugar, lettuce, and wheat

show how specific changes in food systems happen globally and historically

both b and c
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Food sovereignty

is related to food regimes of commonwealth countries.

involves the right of people to self-determination with respect to their food

systems

resonates closely with neo-liberal food policies

is only a concern among Aboriginal peoples

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15

What does the author of chapter eight believe is the cause of both the globalization and
industrialization of food production?

capitalism

socialism

healthism

sexism

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16

With respect to food work,

 Unequal allocations enable individuals to identify as proper men and women (in
the heterosexual context)

Partners work to protect the masculinity of the primary provider and the
femininity of the partner who does more food work (in the queer context)

There exists a private-public dichotomy where private foodwork is unpaid and

less valued and public foodwork is paid and thus more valued

All of the above

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17

Alternative hedonism can be described as:

collective obligations to purchasing foods based on sustainability and animal

welfare

a critical attitude towards consumerist nature of high consumption lifestyle

awareness of gender schemes within food systems and crises

our ability to shop ethically and responsibly

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18

Which of the following statements is true about Desloges’ Model

The first stage is “affiliation”.

The second stage is “consolidation”; bringing culinary knowledge together

 The model negates food knowledge prior to first contact

Both b and c are true

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19

Transdisciplinarity

involves multiple disciplines, but the disciplinary knowledge is maintained

involves multiple disciplines that are informed as part of their engagement

is the same as multidisciplinarity

is often conflated with queer studies

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20

Supply management in Canada

Covers poultry, egg, and diary farms

Involves securing their domestic market

Is possible only because trade restrictions prohibit import cheaper products

All of the above

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21

Exploitation is defined as
 equal pay for equal work

a means to reduce income inequality

the difference between value created by workers and the value they received back
as wages

the difference between what the workers received and what shareholders received

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22

What does food agency give you?

A donation of food to your home

The power to act and make a choice

Food stylists to make your food look good.

Knowledge of where you should eat.

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23

A closed loop system

Promotes organic wastes being returned to the soil

Promotes biological approaches like terracing to reduce soil erosion

Considers the sun as the sole external source of energy

 All of the above are true about closed loop systems

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24

Political ecology

enables us to unpack the environmental costs embedded in our cheap food supply

gives attention to the political economic tendencies, power imbalances, and

ecological instabilities

focuses on the multidisciplinary approach to the degradation of the ecological

systems by encouraging urbanites to recycle their compost using vermiculture

A and B are true

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25

Sociologist Ann Swidler argues that culture should be viewed as a collection of culturally
defined elements that make up a tool kit or repertoire.

True
False
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26

The surplus of food during the first great food revolution enabled all but one of the following:

Increased numbers of people were freed from the work of food production

Governments took a very minor role among the dominant class

The population grew in relatively permanent settlements

 Populations began to stratify according to class

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27

What does commodity studies consist of?

track patterns of iPods, music, music production

track patterns of production, trade, consumption and ideas about a single

commodity such as wheat, milk, or tomatoes.

track patterns of production, trade, consumption of waste, and ideas about several
commodities such as housing, wood, and the tree industry

track patterns that follow the production of several trade commodities that have
very little to do with wheat, milk, or tomatoes.

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28

Healthism

neglects the complex social issues that influence health

denies the social determinants of health

intersects with neo-liberalism

all of the above

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29
Food and eating discourses link health and eating practices to

gender

ethnicity

social class

all of the above

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30

What are the key tenets of critical dietetics?

It is practiced in a rigorous manner

Practitioners engage reflexively

It works towards an emancipatory, socially-just future.

All of the above are tenets of critical dietetics.

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31

Commensality

is a way to describe the benefits of eating local

means eating together

has declined with the aging population

 means having more contact with food, but spending more time eating alone

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32

Culinary historians describe the five periods of culinary practice in Canada. Which is not one of
those periods

contact

affiliation

consolidation

distillation

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33

What process involves people's formal articulation and rationalization for their actions?

Practical Consciousness

Discursive Consciousness

Automatic Consciousness

Discursive Cognition

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34

In being a vegan, David Carter, Chicago Bears linebacker demonstrates

"mainstream" healthy eating discourse

 "traditional" healthy eating discourse

"alternative" healthy eating discourse

none of the above

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35

What is true about pig intensive livestock operations?

In 2014, 20 million pigs were slaughtered at six months of age.

1 million breeding sows will have two pregnancies every year

90% of confined sows demonstrate mental suffering including bar biting, vacuum
chewing, and rooting at bare floors

All of the above statements are true

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36

Considering hunting and gathering, which of the following statements are true:

Is the generally accepted process of food provisioning between 2 million BCE to

15,000 BCE

Far more food was supplied by gathering than by hunting

Sometimes males gathered and women hunted

 All are true

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37

An economy is capitalist to the extent that it is dominated by privately owned and controlled
autonomous units that hire wage workers and seek to maximize profits by producing
commodities for sale in the market.

True
False
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38

What would be considered an aspect of a new food regime?

non-governmental certification systems to promote high quality and safe food

development of food policy at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels

reinforcing the ability of corporations to regulate themselves

a and b are correct.

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39

Cookbooks tend to be practical or ideological. Which is not an example of an ideological

cookbook?

the author is a representative of the corporation that sells the cookbook

the recipes are tested by a “real homemaker”

the cookbook profiles ingredients that are sold by the corporation

 the author is a food and nutrition authority

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40

What is a possible solution to the soil mining crisis?

Inter-Cropping Patterns

Agricultural Innovation

Increase Soil Biodiversity

Climate Change Mitigation

All of the Above

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41

Almost 99% of the money that farmers generate as gross revenues is captured by the agri-
business transnational corporations that sell farmers their fuel, chemical fertilizers, vet supplies,
machinery, and technology.

True
False
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42

What are a few of the theoretical approaches to studying food studies?

Marxism/Political economy
 Post-modernism/Feminist theory

Post-structuralism/Queer theory

Brofenbrener/Ecological systems theory

A, B, and C only

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43

What are the ways that capitalism destroys the small family farm?

Increases in petroleum inputs and requirements for large machinery

Reduced use of pesticides and herbicides i.e. the opposite of the treadmill effect

Increased use of genetically-modified seeds and exploitation of migrant workers

A and C only

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44

Nutritionism

encourages a social determinants approach to healthy eating

has been successful at eliminating food insecurity

promotes the focus on nutrients as the foundational approach to eating

has meant that the general public is healthier than ever

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45

What is critical dietetics?

A group of highly disgruntled nutritionists

A group of nutritionists dedicated to attacking each other

A group that only exists in Canada

A transdisciplinary group that questions the status quo in food and nutrition

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46

Alternative hedonism

is a term coined by Kate Soper

enables people to make ethical and indulgent choices

requires people making ethical and indulgent choices to have resources in order to
do so

all of the above

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47

HANPP

is a fancy way to say nothing

 reflects how biological productivity has been reduced

stands for human appropriation of the net primary product (of photosynthesis)

B and C are true

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48

What explains the gender division of foodwork

Gender is socialized and gender roles are passed on through traditional gender
ideologies

Time constraints theory posits that since women work more out of the home in
paid employment, they spend less time doing household work which is unpaid

Gender construction theory proposes that gendered division of household labour

remains unchanged because that is what has been constructed as appropriate

relative resource theory is based on the idea that in the interest of maximizing
available resources the partner with greater SES will get out of doing household
chores

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49

World-systems theory

argues capitalism and colonialism are interconnected

posits that relationships between industrial wage labour and slavery accelerated
 capitalism

consists of spatial and temporal dimensions

all of the above

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50

Being critical entails which of the following?

Asking questions about whether arguments are based on evidence or biases

Questioning the basic values that lie behind dominant ideologies and discourses
that inform scholarly thinking

Questioning issues of power affect availability and accessibility of food, impact

the environment, and limit food choices

Considering possibilities for social change by exemplifying an activist orientation

towards transforming the food system and society at large

All of the above

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C4 - What are examples of food trends that influence the theme of cookbooks?

Farm to Table

Gluten-free

Paleo, Vegetarian
 Juicing

All of the above

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52

C7 - Who can consider themselves a nutritionist?

Dietitians

Personal Trainers

Anyone

Food Scientists

Celebrities

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53

C5 - What affects Canada’s health choices?

Gender

Social class

Ethnicity

Life Stages
 All of the Above

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54

C5 - What is considered the most important meal of the day in Central America?

Breakfast

Lunch

Afternoon Tea

Dinner

None of the above

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55

C8 - All of the social, environmental, or economic consequences of selling or producing food,

based on their market price are known as:

Exploitation

Externalities

Circuit of capitals

Food surplus

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C6 - Feminist body positive activism and fat studies are often critiqued on the grounds that
celebrating bodies of all shapes, sizes, and abilities endorses unhealthiness.

True
False
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57

C3 - Complete the sentence: On Instagram, currently hashtag “#coffee” had been used more
times than:

The amount of people living in Toronto

The amount of people living in Ontario

The amount of people living in Canada.

The amount of people living in the world

None of the above

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C6 - Which of the following are characteristics of eating disorders?

Reducing food intake by large amounts in order to provoke extreme weight loss

Eating large amounts of food and then purging to prevent weight gain

Fear of gaining weight and distorted image of one's own body

All of the above

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C3 - What are the four components of culture?

Values, symbols, beliefs, norms

Symbols, values, food, language

Religion, food, language, people

culture, religion, food, people

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C7 - What profession did dietetics emerge from?

Doctors

Home Economics

Body Builders

Fast Food Business

Nutritionism