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

2. Barbara begins to realize that minimum wage workers are no less ____________ or intelligent than she is.
(a) Bored
(b) Capable
(c) Eager
(d) Exhausted

3. Barbara promises to spend a _________ in each location in order to get a sense of the area.
(a) Year
(b) Few months
(c) Month
(d) Week

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) Working
(b) Writing
(c) Lying
(d) Reporting

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Some of the coworkers have to pay $60 a night for a hotel room because they can not save up the ___________ for a first and last month rent payment.

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

4. Barbara is also not willing to make up a _____________ in order to pad her resume as she is going off to find jobs.

5. What does Jerry's restaurant close off to employees since they don't want other employees lingering there during breaks?

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