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

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

3. The management at the restaurant try to keep Barbara __________ at every moment of her shift, even when it's slow.
(a) Busy
(b) Happy
(c) Bored
(d) Angry

4. Barbara wondered why there wasn't more indignation about her ruse, realizing that it was probably because people's notion of __________ is different than she thinks it should be.
(a) Lying
(b) Reporting
(c) Working
(d) Writing

5. The manager, ________, yells at Barbara for a confused breakfast and a yuppie customer complains too.
(a) Joy
(b) George
(c) Millie
(d) Stu

Short Answer Questions

1. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.

2. What does Barbara not want to mention when she is out in her new working life?

3. Barbara admits she has two things going for her as a minimum wage worker - she is ________ and she is a native English speaker.

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

5. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, in 1998, the hourly wage necessary to afford a one bedroom apartment was _________.

(see the answer key)

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