Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 115 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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 "Introduction: Getting Ready".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Barbara realizes that her use of a car is different as many minimum wage workers have to use _________ to get around.
(a) Buses
(b) Streets
(c) Friends
(d) Their legs

2. What would Barbara use in order to document her daily experiences after her shifts were done for the day?
(a) Journal
(b) The wall
(c) Napkins
(d) Laptop

3. What is Barbara's PhD in, according to her own admittance?
(a) Biology
(b) English
(c) Public Policy
(d) Business

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara's father had been a _____________; her uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines or for the Union Pacific.

2. Barbara does admit that she modified her __________ when she was new at the job and wanted to fit in.

3. Barbara admits that at the end of the project, she did break down and ____________, stealthily, though, and never within hearing of management.

4. Barbara ruled out areas like LA and New York as the working class consists mainly of people of _______ and she might look out of place.

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

(see the answer key)

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