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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. The manager, ________, yells at Barbara for a confused breakfast and a yuppie customer complains too.
(a) Stu
(b) Millie
(c) Joy
(d) George

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

3. What is Barbara's PhD in, according to her own admittance?
(a) Public Policy
(b) English
(c) Business
(d) Biology

4. Barbara will take the ____________ paying minimum wage job she can find when she's off on assignment.
(a) Consistently
(b) Lowest
(c) Highest
(d) Longest

5. What does Jerry's restaurant close off to employees since they don't want other employees lingering there during breaks?
(a) Break room
(b) Bar
(c) Outside area
(d) Dining room

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the drug testing is supposed to begin, the employees speculate that it is _________ who is guilty of the drug issue.

3. The author also doesn't want to live in an _____________ building when she is off on her assignment.

4. 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.

5. The other staff of the hotel refuses to exchange _________ with the housekeepers or show any sort of respect.

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