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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 the going gets too rough for Barbara, she admits she will use ____________ to get by.
(a) Checks
(b) Begging
(c) Her resume
(d) Credit cards

2. Barbara notes that her sister constantly complained about the hopelessness of being a ____________.
(a) Wage slave
(b) Minimum wage worker
(c) Waitress
(d) Woman

3. What is the 'dream job' that Barbara lands in addition to her restaurant job, taking on both when in Florida?
(a) Housekeeping
(b) Librarian
(c) Factory work
(d) Office work

4. 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 Sundays
(c) Constantly
(d) On Mondays

5. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.
(a) Pain
(b) Inauthenticity
(c) Risk
(d) Poverty

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara certainly does not want to do hard ________ labor when she is working at her new jobs.

2. What are they listening to at full volume as they are cleaning each of the hotel rooms?

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

5. Who is Barbara Ehrenreich's editor, the one who assigns her the story that became this book?

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