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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 is the name of the cook who occasionally throws meat against the wall during his shift?
(a) Joseph
(b) Roger
(c) Billy
(d) Stu

2. 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) Break schedule
(d) Health benefit package

3. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.
(a) Pain
(b) Poverty
(c) Risk
(d) Inauthenticity

4. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.
(a) Upper class
(b) Non-
(c) Middle class
(d) Lower class

5. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, in 1998, the hourly wage necessary to afford a one bedroom apartment was _________.
(a) $6.50
(b) $7.50
(c) $10.00
(d) $8.89

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara realizes that her use of a car is different as many minimum wage workers have to use _________ to get around.

2. Barbara asks the manager of her trailer park to donate her security deposit to ________.

3. Barbara notes that she made a rule that she had to work hard at her jobs to keep them, not go off on ________ rants or sneak off to read novels in the ladies' room.

4. Barbara states, "Someone ought to do the old-fashioned kind of ________ - you know, go out there and try it for themselves."

5. Gail reveals that she had to live in _______ and pee into a plastic bottle after her boyfriend she lives with suddenly dies.

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