AnswersFT English 12 E.Ola - Quarter 3 - WHSA Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser

A Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser Answers

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Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best states a reason supporting the author’s claim that fast food restaurants follow the assembly line model?

A
Once an order has been placed, buttons light up and suggest other menu items that can be added.
B
At Burger King restaurants, frozen hamburger patties are placed on a conveyer belt and emerge from a broiler ninety seconds later fully cooked.
C
The McDonald’s operations manual today has ten times the number of pages and weighs about four pounds.
D
Teenagers open the fast food outlets in the morning, close them at night, and keep them going at all hours in between.
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Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. The strict regimentation at fast food restaurants creates standardized products. It increases the throughput. And it gives fast food companies an enormous amount of power over their employees. “When management determines exactly how every task is to be done . . . and can impose its own rules about pace, output, quality, and technique,” the sociologist Robin Leidner has noted, “[it] makes workers increasingly interchangeable.” The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers—those things are built into the operating system and machines. The testimonial evidence in this excerpt is effective because it

A
makes an emotional protest against the fast food industry’s treatment of employees.
B
includes an expert opinion supporting the claim that the fast food industry resembles the manufacturing business.
C
describes a personal experience of what it is like to work in a fast food restaurant.
D
provides a technical explanation of the standardized procedures and equipment used in fast food restaurants.
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Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best illustrates the use of the rhetorical appeal pathos?

A
Teenagers have long provided the fast food industry with the bulk of its workforce.
B
The strict regimentation at fast food restaurants creates standardized products.
C
Although Richard and Mac McDonald introduced the division of labor to the restaurant business, it was a McDonald’s executive named Fred Turner who created a production system of unusual thoroughness and attention to detail.
D
But the stance of the fast food industry on issues involving employee training, the minimum wage, labor unions, and overtime pay strongly suggests that its motives in hiring the young, the poor, and the handicapped are hardly altruistic.
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Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best states the author’s overall claim?

A
The fast food industry’s obsession with throughput has altered the way millions of Americans work, turned commercial kitchens into small factories, and changed familiar foods into commodities that are manufactured.
B
Unlike Olympic gymnastics—an activity in which teenagers consistently perform at a higher level than adults—there’s nothing about the work in a fast food kitchen that requires young employees.
C
Although Richard and Mac McDonald introduced the division of labor to the restaurant business, it was a McDonald’s executive named Fred Turner who created a production system of unusual thoroughness and attention to detail.
D
Teenagers have been the perfect candidates for these jobs, not only because they are less expensive to hire than adults, but also because their youthful inexperience makes them easier to control.
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The author of Fast Food Nation claims that the fast-food industry prefers to employ underskilled workers. The author best offers support by providing

A
counterclaims about employees who prefer part-time jobs
B
specific reasons such as the ability of de-skilled jobs to “be filled cheaply”
C
evidence that English is the second language for many employees
D
evidence that employees often learn basic job skills such as “getting to work on time”
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The author of Fast Food Nation claims that the fast-food industry prefers to employ teenagers. How does the author best support this claim?

A
by providing evidence that teenagers are the bulk of the workforce in America because many still live at home
B
by providing the counterclaim that teenagers typically leave behind their first jobs at fast-food chains for better opportunities
C
by providing evidence that teenagers are better at smiling and promoting the increased size of an order
D
by providing specific reasons why teenagers are ideal candidates, such as their acceptance of lower wages
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Which of the following pieces of evidence from Fast Food Nation best supports the author’s claim that teenagers are the ideal candidates for working in the fast food industry?

A
And it gives fast food companies an enormous amount of power over their employees.
B
Since most teenagers still lived at home, they could afford to work for wages too low to support an adult, and until recently, their limited skills attracted few other employers.
C
Workers at the counter are told to increase the size of an order by recommending special promotions, pushing dessert, pointing out the financial logic behind the purchase of a larger drink.
D
A McDonald’s kitchen is full of buzzers and flashing lights that tell employees what to do.
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Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. The restaurant opens for business at seven o’clock, and for the next hour or so, Elisa and the manager hold down the fort, handling all the orders. As the place starts to get busy, other employees arrive. Elisa works behind the counter. She takes orders and hands food to customers from breakfast through lunch.Which type of evidence does Schlosser use in this excerpt?

A
anecdotal
B
statistical
C
testimonial
D
analogical
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Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. “When management determines exactly how every task is to be done . . . and can impose its own rules about pace, output, quality, and technique,” the sociologist Robin Leidner has noted, “[it] makes workers increasingly interchangeable.” The management no longer depends upon the talents or skills of its workers — those things are built into the operating system and machines. Jobs that have been “de-skilled” can be filled cheaply. The need to retain any individual worker is greatly reduced by the ease with which he or she can be replaced.Which best describes the type of evidence presented in this excerpt?

A
analogical
B
anecdotal
C
statistical
D
testimonial
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Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. Cooking instructions are not only printed in the manual, they are often designed into the machines. A McDonald’s kitchen is full of buzzers and flashing lights that tell employees what to do.The evidence presented in this excerpt best supports the author’s claim that

A
McDonald’s is the leader in fast food innovation.
B
fast food restaurants use technology designed to reduce the need for skilled labor.
C
technology has helped improve the fast food industry.
D
the workers’ limited skills have forced fast food employers to rely on machines instead of people.

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