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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 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) Minimum wage
(c) Health benefit package
(d) Break schedule

2. Many of the businesses in town seem to place ads in the paper ____________ so as to always have applicants.
(a) On Mondays
(b) Constantly
(c) Once in a while
(d) On Sundays

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

4. One manager threatens to take the _______________ privilege from the employees even though this is their only hideout to smoke or eat.
(a) Office
(b) Bar
(c) Outside
(d) Break room

5. Barbara feels to truly replicate the experience of a minimum wage worker, she would need to have a few __________ in tow too.
(a) Relatives
(b) Children
(c) Boyfriends
(d) Bill collectors

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara promises to spend a _________ in each location in order to get a sense of the area.

2. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.

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

4. Barbara notes that her sister constantly complained about the hopelessness of being a ____________.

5. Barbara will keep driving a beat up ____________ car, though she knows many minimum wage workers can not.

(see the answer key)

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