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. Barbara will keep driving a beat up ____________ car, though she knows many minimum wage workers can not.
(a) Expensive
(b) Used
(c) Rent-a-wreck
(d) Auction

2. Barbara says that she will not rely on her superior ______________ to support herself.
(a) Literacy
(b) Education
(c) Name recognition
(d) Resume

3. Barbara wondered why there wasn't more indignation about her ruse, realizing that it was probably because people's notion of __________ is different than she thinks it should be.
(a) Writing
(b) Reporting
(c) Working
(d) Lying

4. What city in Maine does Barbara choose for her next working location during her assignment?
(a) Boston
(b) Bangor
(c) Portland
(d) Augusta

5. Who is the diabetic that sneaks donuts at the Woodcrest residential facility where the author works her second job?
(a) Margarite
(b) Letty
(c) Grace
(d) Linda

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara thinks she is supposed to _____________ on her shift, but no one else on her shift does.

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

3. The obvious __________ of the sales company is a breath of fresh air for the author compared to the false concern from Wal-Mart.

4. What are managers to think of themselves as when they are working at Wal-Mart?

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

(see the answer key)

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