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

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 115 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Two 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 2, "Scrubbing in Maine"..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A look at the local free magazine reveals very little _________ Barbara can afford in the area where she is staying.
(a) Hope
(b) Housing
(c) Diversity
(d) Work

2. The businesses place ads in the paper so they can always have a pool of __________ from which to hire at any time.
(a) Women
(b) Cheap labor
(c) Applications
(d) Desperate workers

3. Barbara asks the manager of her trailer park to donate her security deposit to ________.
(a) Gail
(b) George
(c) Stu
(d) Millie

4. What is the title of the job Barbara takes at the Woodcrest residential facility, an elder care facility?
(a) Medical assistant
(b) Nurse's aide
(c) Housekeeper
(d) Dietary aid

5. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.
(a) Health benefit package
(b) Minimum wage
(c) Break schedule
(d) Worker hour restriction

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the test Barbara fills out when she is apply at The Maids job during the hiring process?

2. What is the name of the cook who occasionally throws meat against the wall during his shift?

3. The thing Barbara hates to clean most of all is _________ in the bathrooms of their customers.

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

5. Barbara realizes she will need ____________ in order to pay for her apartment.

(see the answer key)

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