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A Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser

Question 7 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 11 B

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.”Which type of evidence is Schlosser using in this excerpt?

Answer
A
anecdotal
B
statistical
C
testimonial
D
analogical

Explanation

Schlosser supports his point by quoting sociologist Robin Leidner, who comments on how management rules make workers interchangeable. Evidence that relies on an expert’s statement or quotation is testimonial evidence. It is not statistical, since no numerical data is presented.

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