What sense does this excerpt evoke? you know that feeling you get when you take a big bite of horseradish or wasabi or whatever, and it feels like your sinuses are closing at the same time as your windpipe, filling your head with trapped, nuclear-hot air that tries to batter its way out through your watering eyes and nostrils? that feeling like steam is about to pour out of your ears like a cartoon character? touch taste hearing movement

The feeling would be more of a touch feeling. We can tell that it would be a touch feeling because it describes the feeling of being hot, or the feeling of steam.

the answer would be taste :D

closer examination, however, finds the mcdonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self- discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.”  

true, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.  

i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

i do not think they will sing to me