Reading Comprehension Quiz (Eric Schlosser, “In the Strawberry Fields”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

Eric Schlosser, “In the Strawberry Fields”

Read “In the Strawberry Fields” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.

Question The main topic of this essay could best be described as

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Question Throughout this essay, Schlosser places the blame for the working conditions on

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Question This essay can best be described as a(n)

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Question How does Schlosser generate sympathy for the workers in his essay?

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Question What are the primary reasons that this situation remains as it is?

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Question Why don’t the farms build homes for their workers in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties?

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Question In paragraph 12, Schlosser describes the different immigrants that have come to this area of California and have been buried in the local cemetery. Why does he do that?

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Question How, according to Schlosser, have advancements in transportation and cooling technology worked to keep the Mexican people impoverished?

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Question In telling the story of the college workers who come to Doug’s farm and “don’t last an hour out there,” Schlosser is subtly suggesting that

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Question In the final paragraphs of the essay, Schlosser comes to the primary point of his article. What is that?

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