A Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser

The author of Fast Food Nation claims that the fast-food industry prefers to employ underskilled workers. The author best offers support by providing

= specific reasons such as the ability of de-skilled jobs to "be filled cheaply"

Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best states the author's overall claim?

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.

Which of the following choices best describes the evidence used in this excerpt?

a. An expert's opinion provides historical background of an important concept.

Which type of evidence does Schlosser use in this excerpt?

a. anecdotal

In this excerpt, Schlosser claims that fast food restaurants are

a. taking advantage of people to save money.

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

b. At Burger King restaurants, frozen hamburger patties are placed on a conveyer belt and emerge from a broiler ninety seconds later fully cooked.

The testimonial evidence in this excerpt is effective because it

b. includes an expert opinion supporting the claim that the fast food industry resembles the manufacturing business.

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

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.

In Fast Food Nation, the best reason that the author offers for the fast-food industry's strict regimen for productivity is that

c. it gives the companies power over their employees.

Which type of evidence is Schlosser using in this excerpt?

c. testimonial

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

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.

Which type of evidence does the author use in this excerpt?

d. analogical

The author of Fast Food Nation claims that the fast-food industry prefers to employ teenagers. How does the author best support this claim?

d. by providing specific reasons why teenagers are ideal candidates, such as their acceptance of lower wages

The evidence presented here supports the author's claim that fast food restaurants are like factories because the excerpt

d. illustrates the assembly line principle of making things faster.

Which best describes the type of evidence presented in this excerpt?

d. testimonial