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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. __________ is a city in which Barbara is afraid she might be recognized, so she looks for work in a nearby city.
(a) Key Largo
(b) Key West
(c) Chicago
(d) New York

2. Barbara admits she has two things going for her as a minimum wage worker - she is ________ and she is a native English speaker.
(a) Educated
(b) Woman
(c) Available
(d) White

3. Because of the low wages that are paid in the area, people who are working at minimum wage are expected to ____________.
(a) Hold multiple jobs
(b) Scrimp
(c) Work longer hours
(d) Argue at the interview

4. Linda wants the author to think of her work at Woodcrest as __________ work, though the customers wear diapers.
(a) Waitress
(b) Babysitting
(c) Spiritual
(d) Easy

5. Who is the tiny busy woman who teaches Barbara the rules of the next job she takes on at the hotel adjacent to the restaurant?
(a) Betty
(b) Holly
(c) Jenny
(d) Millie

Short Answer Questions

1. Ruthie decides to pour _____________ on Barbara's breakfast and jokes again and again that Barbara should be called Barbara Bush.

2. Many of the businesses in town seem to place ads in the paper ____________ so as to always have applicants.

3. What city in Maine does Barbara choose for her next working location during her assignment?

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

5. Barbara's father had been a _____________; her uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines or for the Union Pacific.

(see the answer key)

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