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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 is also not willing to make up a _____________ in order to pad her resume as she is going off to find jobs.
(a) Number of children
(b) False life
(c) Work life
(d) Husband

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

3. What does Barbara not want to mention when she is out in her new working life?
(a) Her hometown
(b) Her daughters
(c) Her husband
(d) PhD

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Barbara admits that at the end of the project, she did break down and ____________, stealthily, though, and never within hearing of management.

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

4. What is the name of the cook who occasionally throws meat against the wall during his shift?

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

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