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

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 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 Chapter 1, "Serving in Florida".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the ____________, the interviewer Barbara meets warns her about labor organizers, to avoid them.
(a) Drugstore
(b) Grocery store
(c) Factory
(d) Wal-Mart

3. Barbara lets a sewer repairman spend a few minutes cooling off with a ________________ before taking his order.
(a) Newspaper fan
(b) Glass of ice water
(c) Fan
(d) Iced tea

4. At what publication does the editor who assigns the story to Barbara work?
(a) Harper's
(b) Redbook
(c) Ladies Home Journal
(d) Glamour

5. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.
(a) Break schedule
(b) Minimum wage
(c) Health benefit package
(d) Worker hour restriction

Short Answer Questions

1. What area of the restaurant is locked up when it is assumed that the dishwasher is stealing from the restaurant?

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

3. Barbara asks the manager of her trailer park to donate her security deposit to ________.

4. What does Ehrenreich discover about her uniform when she is heading over to her second job?

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

(see the answer key)

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