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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. What is the name of the young Czech dishwasher who Barbara befriends when she is working at the restaurant?
(a) Joseph
(b) Stu
(c) Billy
(d) George

2. What is the 'dream job' that Barbara lands in addition to her restaurant job, taking on both when in Florida?
(a) Housekeeping
(b) Office work
(c) Factory work
(d) Librarian

3. Barbara certainly does not want to do hard ________ labor when she is working at her new jobs.
(a) Mental
(b) Outside
(c) Slave
(d) Physical

4. When a manager sees Barbara having a little __________ during her shift, she is scolded, but instead of fighting it, she walks out.
(a) Soup
(b) Smoke
(c) Sip of water
(d) Break

5. Barbara will keep driving a beat up ____________ car, though she knows many minimum wage workers can not.
(a) Used
(b) Auction
(c) Rent-a-wreck
(d) Expensive

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Barbara notes that she made a rule that she had to work hard at her jobs to keep them, not go off on ________ rants or sneak off to read novels in the ladies' room.

3. One manager threatens to take the _______________ privilege from the employees even though this is their only hideout to smoke or eat.

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

5. Who is the tiny busy woman who teaches Barbara the rules of the next job she takes on at the hotel adjacent to the restaurant?

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