Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 115 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, "Scrubbing in Maine"..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author meets a prissy woman who tracks her baby's _______________ with the help of a chart.
(a) Movements
(b) Growth
(c) Bowel movements
(d) Words

2. What does Marge suspect about Holly and this is confirmed when she will not answer the question?
(a) She is dying
(b) She is sleeping with Ted
(c) She is quitting
(d) She is pregnant

3. Nobody seems to make eye contact, Barbara notes, when she applies at _____________, which strikes her as weird.
(a) Wal-Mart
(b) Goodwill
(c) Salvation Army
(d) Meijer

4. The workers have troubles coming up with two dollars to buy a new ___________ when one is left behind at the office.
(a) Bottle of cleaner
(b) Sponge
(c) Rag
(d) Squeegee

5. 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.
(a) $500
(b) $1000
(c) $2000
(d) $100

Short Answer Questions

1. What area of the restaurant is locked up when it is assumed that the dishwasher is stealing from the restaurant?

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

3. Barbara certainly does not want to do hard ________ labor when she is working at her new jobs.

4. 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.

5. One manager threatens to take the _______________ privilege from the employees even though this is their only hideout to smoke or eat.

(see the answer key)

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