Fast Food Nation Ch. 2 Vocabulary Quiz

Which term refers to the statistical characteristics of a population, such as age, gender, and income?

• statistics

• metrics

• variables

• demographics

Which adverb means in a concise and precise manner?

• ramblingly

• vaguely

• succinctly

• briefly

The term that Schlosser points out Disney has used to refer to the cooperation of two or more organizations' advertising to produce a combined market effect greater than the sum of their separate effects is called:

• collaboration

• cooperation

• synchronization

• synergy

Choose the word that means intense and passionate enthusiasm.

• indifference

• apathy

• lethargy

• fervor

Which adjective means dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations?

• pragmatic

• impractical

• academic

• idealistic

What adverbs mean in a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention?

• overtly

• covertly

• blatantly

• surreptitiously

Select the word that means to increase rapidly in numbers; multiply.

• decrease

• accumulate

• diminish

• proliferate

The soda company _______ snuck images of its products into the textbooks it funded.

• demographically

• succinctly

• surreptitiously

• precariously

Because she trusted her sister, she had no ______ about leaving her cat in her care for a week.

• qualms

• suspicions
• proliferations

• demographics

Which term refers to the statistical characteristics of a population, such as age, gender, and income?

• demographics

• variables

• metrics

• statistics