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

2. Barbara began to realize that the only thing that made her special and separate from others at her workplace was her lack of __________.
(a) Driver's license
(b) Experience
(c) Debt
(d) Ripped clothing

3. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.
(a) Desiring
(b) Trying
(c) Pretending
(d) Training

4. Who is Barbara Ehrenreich's editor, the one who assigns her the story that became this book?
(a) Stu Manshet
(b) Lewis Lapham
(c) Joseph Truman
(d) Louis Lanston

5. 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.
(a) $500
(b) $100
(c) $1000
(d) $2000

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Barbara's PhD in, according to her own admittance?

2. Barbara says that she will not rely on her superior ______________ to support herself.

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

4. 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.

5. When the going gets too rough for Barbara, she admits she will use ____________ to get by.

(see the answer key)

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