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

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

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 3, "Selling in Minnesota,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the ____________, the interviewer Barbara meets warns her about labor organizers, to avoid them.
(a) Grocery store
(b) Factory
(c) Wal-Mart
(d) Drugstore

2. What did Barbara fear employers would think she was if she were to put the PhD on her resumes and applications?
(a) Reporter
(b) Alcoholic
(c) Actress
(d) Druggie

3. How long does the shift at Menards turn out to be when they call again the next day before she goes to work?
(a) 8 hours
(b) 4 hours
(c) 2 hours
(d) 11 hours

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

5. _____________ is a woman who simply picked up and moved to Florida because she heard the rents were better than New Jersey.
(a) Milly
(b) Dawn
(c) Margerie
(d) Caroline

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do Carlie and Barbara work before they take a break from their housekeeping work?

2. Barbara lets a sewer repairman spend a few minutes cooling off with a ________________ before taking his order.

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

4. Barbara begins to realize that she is acting like an unhappy __________ when she argues with another worker at Wal-Mart.

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

(see the answer key)

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