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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. 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) Debt
(c) Driver's license
(d) Ripped clothing

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

3. Barbara does admit that she modified her __________ when she was new at the job and wanted to fit in.
(a) Vocabulary
(b) Hairstyle
(c) Clothing
(d) Makeup

4. __________ 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 West
(c) New York
(d) Key Largo

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Some of the coworkers have to pay $60 a night for a hotel room because they can not save up the ___________ for a first and last month rent payment.

3. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.

4. Barbara can not afford gas money because of the $30 she has to spend on a ___________ for her restaurant job.

5. The management at the restaurant try to keep Barbara __________ at every moment of her shift, even when it's slow.

(see the answer key)

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