Question

Read the passage carefully. At the foot of the panel is a thirty-two-pound bucket of tomatoes. Harvesters fill it up 100 to 150 times per day, on average. For that bucket the worker receives forty-five cents—a nickel more than the wage earned in 1980 (and that nickel is the result of general strikes organized by CIW in the mid- and late-’90s). The museumgoer can pick it up, getting a sense of how hard the work is for stagnant wages. –"Modern Slavery,” Katrina vanden Heuvel

What effect does the modality of this exhibit most likely have on the visitors to the museum?

Visitors can use the gustatory modality to taste the tomatoes picked by laborers.

Visitors can use the auditory modality to hear stories about modern enslavement first-hand.

Visitors can use the tactile modality to feel the weight of the heavy tomato buckets.

Visitors can use the logic modality to calculate and compare earnings.

Answer 1

The answer is C visitors can use the tactile modality to feel the weight of the heavy tomato buckets

Why?

The passage describes a museum exhibit featuring a bucket of tomatoes that represents the labor of harvesters. The text mentions that visitors can "pick it up" to get a sense of how hard the work is for stagnant wages. This suggests that the primary intention is to allow visitors to physically experience the weight of the tomato bucket, which aligns with the tactile modality. The focus is on conveying the physical aspect of the labor and the challenging conditions faced by the workers.