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) Used
(b) Auction
(c) Expensive
(d) Rent-a-wreck

2. The Preamble Center for Public Policy noted that the odds against a typical welfare recipient's landing a job at a ______ were about 97 to 1.
(a) Restaurant
(b) Factory
(c) Living wage
(d) Minimum age

3. Barbara is concerned that her biggest challenge will be to hide her _____________, even though this does not turn out to be an issue.
(a) Car
(b) Education
(c) Jewelry
(d) Writing career

4. Barbara notes she feels like a fugitive on this assignment, becoming obsessed with the few __________ she's brought along.
(a) Dollars
(b) Newspapers
(c) Credit cards
(d) Possessions

5. What does Barbara have to surrender when she goes in for her drug test at the hospital?
(a) Her sweater
(b) Her jacket
(c) Her driver's license
(d) Her purse

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the job Barbara takes at the Woodcrest residential facility, an elder care facility?

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

3. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.

4. The businesses place ads in the paper so they can always have a pool of __________ from which to hire at any time.

5. One young girl named ____________ refuses to eat and she grows paler each day as a result, obviously she is ill.

(see the answer key)

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