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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) Billy
(b) Joseph
(c) Stu
(d) George

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) Experience
(b) Ripped clothing
(c) Driver's license
(d) Debt

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

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

5. Many of the businesses in town seem to place ads in the paper ____________ so as to always have applicants.
(a) Once in a while
(b) On Mondays
(c) On Sundays
(d) Constantly

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara will keep driving a beat up ____________ car, though she knows many minimum wage workers can not.

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. 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.

4. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.

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

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