A Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser

Question 1

When [Elisa] finally walks home, after seven hours of standing at a cash register, her feet hurt. She’s wiped out.

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B: pathos

Question 2

Question 2

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B: It uses emotional language to help the reader experience Elisa’s daily challenges.

Question 3

About two-thirds of the nation’s fast food workers are under the age of twenty.

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A: logos

Question 4

This anecdotal evidence helps develop which of Schlosser’s claims, or central ideas?

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B: Teenagers are the ideal employees for the fast-food industry.

Question 5

Which of the following did you include in your response?

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A: an explanation of one claim; B: a summary of how the claim developed; C: specific examples of types of evidence; D: the rhetorical appeals Schlosser used; E: an explanation of what made the evidence effective

Question 6

In 1958, [Fred] Turner put together an operations and training manual for the company that was seventy-five pages long, specifying how almost everything should be done. Hamburgers were always to be placed on the grill in six neat rows; french fries had to be exactly 0.28 inches thick.

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A: logos

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