Reading Comprehension Quiz (Lars Eighner, “On Dumpster Diving”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

Lars Eighner, “On Dumpster Diving”

Read “On Dumpster Diving” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.

Question Why might Eighner want to distinguish between “scavenging” and “foraging,” based on a careful examination of this essay?

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Question Why doesn’t Eighner refer to himself as a “Dumpster diver”?

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Question A large percentage of the essay is about gathering food items for human consumption from Dumpsters. Why might this be?

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Question What might the purpose of this essay be?

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Question In paragraphs 38 and 39, he tells the reader that he has initiated others into scavenging and he notes that the new scavenger is “filled with disgust and self-loathing.” He then goes on to note that most people “instinctively look away from a scavenger.” Why is this?

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Question Why does Eighner hate can scroungers?

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Question Why doesn’t Eighner go through garbage cans?

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Question Eighner writes that he is “horrified to discover the kind of paper which now merits an A in an undergraduate course.” Why might he note this to the reader?

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