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

What makes this factual evidence effective?

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A: It shows an attention to consistency that exists in the fast-food industry today.

Question 3

Question 3

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

Question 4

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

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A: logos

Question 5

This factual, historical evidence helps develop which claim?

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A: The fast-food industry resembles the manufacturing business.

Question 6

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

Question 7

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 8

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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