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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 asks the manager of her trailer park to donate her security deposit to ________.
(a) George
(b) Gail
(c) Millie
(d) Stu

2. What are they listening to at full volume as they are cleaning each of the hotel rooms?
(a) Soap operas
(b) Rap music
(c) Local news
(d) Their headphones

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

4. Gail reveals that she had to live in _______ and pee into a plastic bottle after her boyfriend she lives with suddenly dies.
(a) The bathroom
(b) A box
(c) A truck
(d) A storage space

5. The author also doesn't want to live in an _____________ building when she is off on her assignment.
(a) Illuminated
(b) Apartment
(c) Inferior
(d) Ill built

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the tiny busy woman who teaches Barbara the rules of the next job she takes on at the hotel adjacent to the restaurant?

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

3. When Barbara is paired up with Carlie on her first shift, Carlie is angry they have 19 _________ to swab down in just one shift.

4. When Barbara walks out of the restaurant, she feels _______ instead of feeling enraged, as she expects to.

5. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.

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