A Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser

Question 6 • 2026-2027_MDCPS_1001375_English 3 B-CR

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

Answer

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.

A job at a fast food restaurant became an American rite of passage, a first job soon left behind for better things.

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.

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

Explanation

Logos appeals to logic and reason, often by presenting facts or statistics. Choice C gives specific numerical information: English is the second language of at least one-sixth of restaurant workers, and about one-third of those workers speak no English. The other excerpts mainly describe a setting, make a broad observation, or convey a worker’s feelings.

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