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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 does Barbara not want to mention when she is out in her new working life?
(a) PhD
(b) Her husband
(c) Her daughters
(d) Her hometown

2. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.
(a) Non-
(b) Middle class
(c) Lower class
(d) Upper class

3. __________ is a city in which Barbara is afraid she might be recognized, so she looks for work in a nearby city.
(a) Chicago
(b) Key Largo
(c) Key West
(d) New York

4. For what magazine does the author of "Nickel and Dimed" work when she is beginning her assignment?
(a) NY Gazette
(b) New York Times
(c) New Yorker
(d) New England Journal

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 Sundays
(c) Constantly
(d) On Mondays

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. When a manager sees Barbara having a little __________ during her shift, she is scolded, but instead of fighting it, she walks out.

3. What is Barbara's PhD in, according to her own admittance?

4. What is the name Barbara uses for the family restaurant where she chooses to work first in Florida?

5. What is the 'dream job' that Barbara lands in addition to her restaurant job, taking on both when in Florida?

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