Dumpsters
Scavengers
Trivia
Rhetorical Terms
The Author
100
A large container for rubbish
What is a dumpster?
100
Eighner also calls a scavenger this
What is a Hobo or Wino
100
The number one waste collection company in the US
What is Waste Management
100
The point of view in which the story is told
What is first person
100
The name of the author's dog
Who is Lizbeth?
200
Name 5 items found in a dumpster
What is Food, Clothes, Radios, Candles, Dishes, Change, Furniture, Bedding, Medicine, Books, Magazines
200
Scavengers sold these to have money
What are cans
200
The percent of waste that is able to be recycled
What is 75%
200
the genre of the story
What is a narrative
200
The narrator's name
Who is Lars Eighner
300
The best time of year to find warm bedding
What is August
300
The author's image when he thinks of scavenging
What is "a big black snail"
300
The number of pounds of waste Americans generate daily
What is 4 pounds
300
Informing the audience of the lifestyle of a scavenger is Ethos, Logos, or Pathos
What is Logos
300
How long the author dumpster dove before he became homeless
What is one year
400
A food poisoning found in faulty canned goods
What is botulism?
400
Most commonly found in a dumptser
What is food
400
The number of cans recycled to produce the energy to play one album on an iPod
What is 1 can
400
The tone of the story
What is Didactic
400
The author restricts himself to collecting how many small objects at a time?
What is one
500
The origin name of a dumpster
What is Dempster Dumpster
500
The best way to increase the supply of pizzas in the dumptser
What is placing a bogus order (which he never did)
500
How many plastic bottles does the world throw away every hour?
What is 2.5 million
500
The question "What is safe to eat?" is what type of rhetorical strategy
What is Hypophora
500
The book this piece is excerpted from
What is Travels with Lizbeth
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