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. Barbara begins to realize that minimum wage workers are no less ____________ or intelligent than she is.
(a) Capable
(b) Exhausted
(c) Eager
(d) Bored

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

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.
(a) Long-winded
(b) Liberal
(c) Curse-filled
(d) Marxist

4. Barbara thinks the fact she is __________ will help her since she will not stand out from others.
(a) White
(b) A single woman
(c) A yuppie
(d) A divorced woman

5. What does Barbara accidentally shatter in her efforts to help Holly not have to work as hard?
(a) A vase
(b) Glass fish bowl
(c) The glass sculpture
(d) A picture frame

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. At the ____________, the interviewer Barbara meets warns her about labor organizers, to avoid them.

5. Barbara is horrified to see that The Maids use very little _________ when they are cleaning.

(see the answer key)

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