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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. 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) Desiring
(c) Pretending
(d) Training

2. Barbara will take the ____________ paying minimum wage job she can find when she's off on assignment.
(a) Lowest
(b) Highest
(c) Longest
(d) Consistently

3. Barbara feels to truly replicate the experience of a minimum wage worker, she would need to have a few __________ in tow too.
(a) Boyfriends
(b) Bill collectors
(c) Children
(d) Relatives

4. The Preamble Center for Public Policy noted that the odds against a typical welfare recipient's landing a job at a ______ were about 97 to 1.
(a) Restaurant
(b) Factory
(c) Living wage
(d) Minimum age

5. The author also doesn't want to live in an _____________ building when she is off on her assignment.
(a) Apartment
(b) Illuminated
(c) Inferior
(d) Ill built

Short Answer Questions

1. For what magazine does the author of "Nickel and Dimed" work when she is beginning her assignment?

2. __________ is a city in which Barbara is afraid she might be recognized, so she looks for work in a nearby city.

3. Barbara states, "Someone ought to do the old-fashioned kind of ________ - you know, go out there and try it for themselves."

4. What area of the restaurant is locked up when it is assumed that the dishwasher is stealing from the restaurant?

5. What is the 'dream job' that Barbara lands in addition to her restaurant job, taking on both when in Florida?

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