Please type up your responses to the following questions. (I’ll accept handwritten responses.)
Reading questions for The Jungle and “The Most Dangerous Job” (from Fast Food Nation)
1. What is the focus of this excerpt from The Jungle? Use evidence from the text to support your
response.
2. What is a secondary focus of this excerpt from The Jungle? Use evidence from the text to
support your response.
3. What is the primary focus of “The Most Dangerous Job”? Use evidence from the text to support
your response.
4. What is a secondary focus of “The Most Dangerous Job”? Use evidence from the text to support
your response.
5. Write at least two things you learned about the contemporary meatpacking industry in “The
Most Dangerous Job.”
6. What questions do you have after reading “The Most Dangerous Job”?
7. What connections do you see between the excerpt from The Jungle and “The Most Dangerous
Job”? Be specific.