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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 area of the restaurant is locked up when it is assumed that the dishwasher is stealing from the restaurant?
(a) Meat locker
(b) Office
(c) Dry storage
(d) Bathroom

2. Barbara certainly does not want to do hard ________ labor when she is working at her new jobs.
(a) Slave
(b) Physical
(c) Outside
(d) Mental

3. The management at the restaurant try to keep Barbara __________ at every moment of her shift, even when it's slow.
(a) Bored
(b) Angry
(c) Busy
(d) Happy

4. 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) Office work
(d) Factory work

5. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.
(a) Worker hour restriction
(b) Break schedule
(c) Health benefit package
(d) Minimum wage

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do Carlie and Barbara work before they take a break from their housekeeping work?

2. The manager, ________, yells at Barbara for a confused breakfast and a yuppie customer complains too.

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. What does Barbara not want to mention when she is out in her new working life?

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

(see the answer key)

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