On Dumpster Diving APMC
Authored by Anne Royalty
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11th Grade
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This quiz focuses on literary analysis of Lars Eighner's essay "On Dumpster Diving," targeting advanced high school students at the 11th-grade level. The questions assess students' ability to analyze complex nonfiction prose, requiring them to identify the author's primary purpose, interpret figurative language and metaphor, recognize rhetorical appeals and strategies, and evaluate tone and voice. Students must demonstrate sophisticated reading comprehension skills by understanding how Eighner presents dumpster diving as a survival mechanism rather than a lifestyle choice, analyzing his use of concrete details like the "unboxed pizza" metaphor to illustrate economic concepts, and recognizing how he establishes credibility through personal experience while appealing to readers' logic and emotions. The quiz demands that students understand rhetorical analysis terminology, including the concept of pathos and how authors use personal narrative to build trust with their audience, while also requiring them to distinguish between subtle tonal qualities like "authoritative and pragmatic" versus other descriptive pairs. Created by Anne Royalty, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 11. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for assessing students' mastery of rhetorical analysis skills essential for Advanced Placement English Language and Composition coursework. Teachers can deploy this assessment as a formative evaluation following close reading instruction, as a review activity before major exams, or as homework to reinforce classroom discussions about nonfiction analysis techniques. The quiz works particularly well for warm-up activities that activate prior knowledge about rhetorical strategies before diving deeper into essay writing or class discussions about social justice themes in contemporary nonfiction. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards RI.11-12.6 for determining author's point of view and purpose in complex texts, and RI.11-12.4 for analyzing the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, while supporting AP English Language Learning Objectives related to rhetorical situation analysis and argument evaluation.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The speaker presents the nature of Dumpster diving primarily as
recommended means of living for the poor
alternative lifestyle for those interested in rejecting consumerism
practical means of survival for the destitute
deplorable blight on the conscience of society
despicable activity unless one is homeless
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.2
CCSS.RI. 9-10.2
CCSS.RL.11-12.2
CCSS.RL.8.2
CCSS.RL.9-10.2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In paragraph 22, the statement "an unboxed pizza does not exist" refers to the product as it relates to which of the following?
hunger
economy
aroma
opportunity
presentation
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.2
CCSS.L.11-12.4
CCSS.L.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.11-12.1
CCSS.RI.11-12.3
CCSS.RI.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.11-12.1
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In presenting his own experience, the speaker appeals to his reader's (dominantly)
trust
spirituality
logic
emotions
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.5
CCSS.RI.9-10.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Eighner appeals to emotions (pathos) most directly in terms of
the homeless
himself
Lizbeth
the wealthy
his readers
Tags
CCSS.RI. 9-10.6
CCSS.RI.11-12.6
CCSS.RL.11-12.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The speaker employs a tone most accurately described as
critical and elevated
satiric and polemical
enthusiastic and didactic
serious and querulous
authoritative and pragmatic
Tags
CCSS.RL.11-12.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.4
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