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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, "Scrubbing in Maine"..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.
(a) Non-
(b) Lower class
(c) Upper class
(d) Middle class

2. What are they listening to at full volume as they are cleaning each of the hotel rooms?
(a) Rap music
(b) Soap operas
(c) Local news
(d) Their headphones

3. Barbara says that she will not rely on her superior ______________ to support herself.
(a) Name recognition
(b) Literacy
(c) Resume
(d) Education

4. As Barbara downs coffee who does she notice is looking haggard when she shows up for her next job?
(a) George
(b) Carlie
(c) Millie
(d) Stu

5. What is hurting Barbara as she is filling up the dishwasher with dishes and carrying away the dirty items?
(a) Nothing
(b) Her head
(c) Her hands
(d) Her back

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.

2. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.

3. At what publication does the editor who assigns the story to Barbara work?

4. What is the title of the job Barbara takes at the Woodcrest residential facility, an elder care facility?

5. The Maids say the work they do will be easy because cleaning is in our __________, notes Barbara.

(see the answer key)

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