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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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Read this claim from an argumentative essay about zoos. Zoos help to protect endangered animals, so they are necessary for animal conservation.Which piece of evidence, if true, would best support this claim?

A
Removing animals from the wild and placing them in zoos can contribute to the endangerment of their species.
B
Specialists can breed animals at zoos to help increase their population.
C
Many animals die prematurely in zoos because they are exposed to diseases.
D
Funding sources for zoos can be limited, and they often rely on donations from the public.
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Read the following excerpt from Levitt and Dubner’s Freakonomics.Driving around the parks that encircle Washington, he solicited customers with a simple pitch: early in the morning, he would deliver some bagels and a cash basket to company’s snack room; he would return before lunch to pick up the money and the leftovers. It was an honor-system commerce scheme, and it worked. Within a few years, Feldman was delivering 8,400 bagels a week to 140 companies and earning as much as he had ever made as a research analyst. He had thrown off the shackles of cubicle life and made himself happy.Based on the excerpt, which statement best strengthens Feldman’s claim that people are mostly honest?

A
Feldman solicited customers with a simple pitch.
B
Feldman’s payment system was largely successful.
C
Feldman earned a good living delivering bagels.
D
Feldman found a new career and made himself happy.
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Read the excerpt from part 4 of Zeitoun.The van stopped at the station’s side door, and the captives were taken out of the van and led inside. When Zeitoun and the others entered the main room of the station, immediately fifty pairs of eyes, those of soldiers and police officers and military personnel, were upon them. There were no other civilians inside. It was as if the entire operation, this bus station-turned-military base, had been arranged for them.What conclusion can readers draw about this character vs. society conflict?

A
Zeitoun and his friends are the first of many suspects in the city.
B
Zeitoun and his friends are presumed guilty of serious offenses.
C
Zeitoun and his friends will be treated fairly by the military officers.
D
Zeitoun and his friends will be punished without a legitimate trial.
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Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.I wanted to tell her she shouldn’t be playing Scrabble yet. Or looking in the mirror. Or turning the stereo any louder than what you needed just to hear it.What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?

A
that his mother’s activities suggest an end to her grief
B
that his mother’s activities are adversely affecting her work
C
that his mother’s attention to the mirror suggests vanity
D
that his mother’s game-playing detracts from her time with him

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