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- 1. Multiple ChoiceHow would both authors of both articles describe fast food workers?intelligentunskilledfortunateirresponsible
- 2. Multiple ChoiceHow do the two columns differ regarding raising the minimum wage?Those against it believe it will decrease production and those in favor believe it will link production to income.Those in favor believe it will boost the economy and those against believe it will eliminate jobs sending us into a greater recession.Those in favor believe it will improve foreign trade and those against believe it will harm international trade.Those against believe it will discourage education and those in favor believe it will not affect those attending college.
- 3. Multiple ChoiceHow do both articles view it when employees are replaced by either cheaper labor or technology?The CON article says it is a positive thing.The PRO article says it is a positive thing.Both authors believe that it is good for the country.Both authors believe that it is bad for the country.
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhich sentence from the PRO article gives a counter-argument to the idea from the CON article that says the average fast-food employee stays at his or her restaurant for less than a year.The majority are at least 23 and only 30 percent are teenagers.More than a quarter of them are raising at least one child.Obviously, they are not just there for a little while before advancing to higher-paying jobs with benefits.The richest 1 percent of Americans have doubled their share of America's total income from 1980 to 2011.
- 5. Multiple ChoiceThe main point that the CON article's author makes is:Giving fast-food workers higher pay will further collapse the economy and in the end, will do more harm than good.Giving fast-food workers higher pay will result in jobs being performed by robots instead of people.Using leeches is well meaning, but it was not effective.Fast-food chains like McDonald's would close if wages went up.
- 6. Multiple ChoiceThe main point of the PRO article is:Americans were able to keep America out of another war, so they should be able to get Obama to support the Employee Free Choice Act.We have been treating fast-food workers worse and worse over the years and giving them a pay increase would help fix a broken system.Not all fast-food workers are teenagers and many of them have families and children to provide for.The rich keep getting richer while the poor continue to make less and less money.
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe people who are against raising the minimum wage respond to opposing viewpoints by:suggesting that high school students try to get their first job at a fast-food restaurantadmitting that Mexican workers make less money than people who work in the United Statesblaming the United States Congress for the depressed state of the economycomparing the result of raising the minimum wage to that of blood-sucking leeches on sick patients
- 8. Multiple ChoiceSelect the sentence that BEST matches the PRO author's main idea.First, let's throw out some of the nonsense that people have been told about these workers.This kind of mass protest around wage and work issues has not been seen for a long time, perhaps since the Great Depression.If wages had increased since 1968 the way they did in past decades, the lowest wage someone could take home would be $17 per hour per day.Fast-food workers are suffering for the same reasons that the majority of employees have lost ground for decades: the rules of the economy have been rewritten against them.
- 9. Multiple ChoiceSelect the sentence that BEST matches the PRO author's main idea.First, let's throw out some of the nonsense that people have been told about these workers.This kind of mass protest around wage and work issues has not been seen for a long time, perhaps since the Great Depression.If wages had increased since 1968 the way they did in past decades, the lowest wage someone could take home would be $17 per hour per day.Fast-food workers are suffering for the same reasons that the majority of employees have lost ground for decades: the rules of the economy have been rewritten against them.
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe PRO article's author shows his opinion by doing all of the following things EXCEPT:using strong, convincing languageasking the reader questionsproviding numbers and factssharing personal experiences
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThe CON article's author shows his opinion by doing all of the following things EXCEPT:comparing America to other placesproviding numbers and factstelling the reader what to doshowing other ways people who mean well have failed
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhat do both sides agree on?Fast-food workers are not paid very much money.Laws took power away from poor people.Robots will replace fast-food cooks.The rich people keep getting richer.
- 13. Multiple ChoiceHow do the authors differ in their views of the workers?One author feels that fast-food workers are hardworking; the other thinks they are lazy.One author feels that fast-food workers are teenagers; the other thinks they are all adults.One author thinks that fast-food workers usually move onto other jobs; the other author thinks many of them are stuck where they are.One author thinks that fast-food workers are underpaid; the other author thinks they are paid too much.
- 14. Multiple ChoiceSelect the sentence that would fit best in the PRO article:Fast-food workers could soon be replaced by technology like iPads or computers.If we raised pay for fast-food workers, we could end up like American Samoa.The wages for fast-food workers have been too low for a long time and it needs to stop.Fast-food workers in America are making even less than workers make in Mexico.
- 15. Multiple ChoiceSelect the sentence that would best fit in the CON article:Fast-food workers are not being paid enough in Mexico.If we raise the wages for fast-food workers in America, everyone will suffer.If we raise the wages for fast-food workers, it will right a system that has been wrong for years.Fast-food workers are being paid too much in America because they do not work hard enough.
- 16. Multiple ChoiceOur terrible economy is not producing enough decent jobs to which they could move.
Which word BEST describes what decent means in this passage?properskilledrespectedhigh-paying - 17. Multiple ChoiceObviously, they are not just there for a little while before advancing to higher-paying jobs with benefits. Our terrible economy is not producing enough decent jobs to which they could move. In fact, nearly half of employed college graduates say that their jobs do not require a college degree.
What does decent mean in this passage?respectedproperskilledhigh paying - Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags