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QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT 



I. Of what are fruit juices composed? 2. What happens to these 

 fruit juices if left exposed to air of ordinary temperature ? 3. What 

 is meant by nature's great law of decay? Illustrate. 4. What 

 name is given to the process of decay that goes on in fruit 

 juices that are pressed out and left exposed to the air? 5. What 

 does fermentation in its widest sense include? 6. State briefly the 

 law of fermentation. 7. What causes the various processes of 

 decomposition? 8. What would be the condition of the earth if it 

 were not for these minute living forms? 9. To what is the general 

 name "bacteria" applied? 10. What are the shape and size of 

 several different kinds of bacteria ? 



II. What is mold? Illustrate. 12. Mention three of the more 

 common forms of fermentation. 13. Upon what is alcoholic fermen- 

 tation in general based? 14. What change in fruit juices and cereals 

 is brought about by fermentation ? 15. Explain in full how wine is 

 produced by fermentation. 16. What is the great danger from drink- 

 ing wine ? 17. What are malt liquors ? 18. Explain how alcohol is 

 formed by the fermentation of cereals. 19. What can you say of 

 the food value of beer? 20. Does the drinking of beer tend to 

 diminish the use of ardent spirits ? 



21. Describe the physiological effect of drinking malt liquors. 

 22. What is the testimony of life-insurance companies in regard to 

 beer drinking? 23. Explain how cider is made by the fermentation 

 of the juice of apples. 24. Explain the process of distillation. 

 25. From what are the various distilled liquors made ? 26. What is 

 a poison? 27. What is a narcotic poison? 28. Show why alcohol is 

 a poison. 29. What is the only safeguard against forming the alco- 

 holic appetite and the only cure when it is formed ? 30. What are 

 some of the dangers of social drinking? 



31. Explain in full what is meant by the alcohol habit. 32. How 

 does the result of the oxidation of alcohol upon the body differ from 

 that of the oxidation of food ? 33. Give the essential points in the 

 definition of a food. 34. Explain why alcohol is not a food in the 

 ordinary meaning of the word. 35. How is alcohol classed by 

 standard authorities ? 



