Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 115 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, "Serving in Florida".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. __________ is a city in which Barbara is afraid she might be recognized, so she looks for work in a nearby city.
(a) New York
(b) Key West
(c) Key Largo
(d) Chicago

2. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.
(a) Trying
(b) Pretending
(c) Desiring
(d) Training

3. Barbara began to realize that the only thing that made her special and separate from others at her workplace was her lack of __________.
(a) Experience
(b) Ripped clothing
(c) Driver's license
(d) Debt

4. Since Barbara is far from any grocery store, she needs to live on __________ when she eats.
(a) Fast food
(b) Energy bars
(c) Diet soda
(d) Work food

5. Barbara is also not willing to make up a _____________ in order to pad her resume as she is going off to find jobs.
(a) Number of children
(b) Husband
(c) False life
(d) Work life

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name Barbara uses for the family restaurant where she chooses to work first in Florida?

2. When the drug testing is supposed to begin, the employees speculate that it is _________ who is guilty of the drug issue.

3. What is Barbara punished with when she points out that a manager is calling one of his employees by the incorrect name?

4. Barbara feels to truly replicate the experience of a minimum wage worker, she would need to have a few __________ in tow too.

5. Barbara asks the manager of her trailer park to donate her security deposit to ________.

(see the answer key)

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