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

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Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best illustrates the use of the rhetorical appeal logos?

A
Teenagers open the fast food outlets in the morning, close them at night, and keep them going at all hours in between.
B
Elisa’s mother usually drives her the half-mile or so to the restaurant, but sometimes Elisa walks, leaving home before the sun rises.
C
The labor practices of the fast food industry have their origins in the assembly line systems adopted by American manufacturers in the early twentieth century.
D
Fast food kitchens often seem like a scene from Bugsy Malone, a film in which all the actors are children pretending to be adults.
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Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. At Burger King restaurants, frozen hamburger patties are placed on a conveyer belt and emerge from a broiler ninety seconds later fully cooked. The ovens at Pizza Hut and at Domino’s also use conveyer belts to ensure standardized cooking times. The ovens at McDonald’s look like commercial laundry presses, with big steel hoods that swing down and grill hamburgers on both sides at once. The burgers, chicken, french fries, and buns are all frozen when they arrive at a McDonald’s. The evidence presented here supports the author’s claim that fast food restaurants are like factories because the excerpt

A
explores the variety of items available at many fast food chains.
B
describes the typical workday of a fast food employee.
C
explains why teenagers like to work at fast food restaurants.
D
illustrates the assembly line principle of making things faster.
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Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best states the author’s overall claim?

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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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Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. Instead of relying upon a small, stable, well-paid, and well-trained workforce, the fast food industry seeks out part-time, unskilled workers who are willing to accept low pay. 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.In this excerpt, Schlosser claims that fast food restaurants are

A
taking advantage of people to save money.
B
helping society by hiring unskilled workers.
C
providing valuable training for teenagers.
D
using highly skilled workers in low-paying jobs.
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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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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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Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. 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. Which type of evidence does the author use in this excerpt?

A
anecdotal
B
statistical
C
testimonial
D
analogical
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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?

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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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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

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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 author’s use of the rhetorical appeal logos?

A
Her family’s modest townhouse sits beside a busy highway on the south side of Colorado Springs, in a largely poor and working-class neighborhood.
B
A job at a fast food restaurant became an American rite of passage, a first job soon left behind for better things.
C
English is now the second language of at least one-sixth of the nation’s restaurant workers, and about one-third of that group speaks no English at all.
D
When she finally walks home, after seven hours of standing at a cash register, her feet hurt. She’s wiped out.

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