Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 115 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Closing remarks, "Evaluation".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The treatment of low wage workers, Barbara believes, creates a dictatorship and causes the workers they are ___________.
(a) Worthless
(b) Necessary
(c) Worthwhile
(d) Doomed

2. The author most dislikes the visible __________ at the restaurant where she works since they complain and never leave good tips.
(a) Tourists
(b) Christians
(c) Republicans
(d) Elite

3. When Barbara walks out of the restaurant, she feels _______ instead of feeling enraged, as she expects to.
(a) Defeat
(b) Happy
(c) Grateful
(d) Relieved

4. Barbara can not afford gas money because of the $30 she has to spend on a ___________ for her restaurant job.
(a) Uniform
(b) Application fee
(c) Book
(d) Set of pencils

5. What is the name Barbara uses for the family restaurant where she chooses to work first in Florida?
(a) Hearthside
(b) Hearthville
(c) Heartbreak Hotel
(d) Hearttown

Short Answer Questions

1. Low wage workers have to change jobs frequently and get to understand a new __________ culture in a short period of time.

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

3. Businesses and society itself discourages people from comparing their ____________.

4. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.

5. What costs $10 to use when she is staying at the Clearview Inn before her apartment will be ready?

(see the answer key)

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