Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 115 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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) Eager
(b) Bored
(c) Capable
(d) Exhausted

2. Barbara realizes she will need ____________ in order to pay for her apartment.
(a) To stop driving
(b) Another job
(c) More tips
(d) Less food

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

4. How long do Carlie and Barbara work before they take a break from their housekeeping work?
(a) 10 hours
(b) 5 hours
(c) 4 hours
(d) 8 hours

5. A middle aged waitress named __________ takes Barbara under her wing when she first begins her new job.
(a) Gail
(b) Betty
(c) Stella
(d) Holly

Short Answer Questions

1. The author meets a prissy woman who tracks her baby's _______________ with the help of a chart.

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

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.

4. Working class people are driven to live in ____________ since rents are so high in the areas where they work.

5. Despite the miraculous vacuum cleaner, Lori and Pauline's __________ are ruined and wrecked.

(see the answer key)

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