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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, "Serving in Florida".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Barbara ruled out areas like LA and New York as the working class consists mainly of people of _______ and she might look out of place.
(a) Higher education
(b) Color
(c) Class
(d) Poverty

2. What does Jerry's restaurant close off to employees since they don't want other employees lingering there during breaks?
(a) Bar
(b) Break room
(c) Dining room
(d) Outside area

3. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.
(a) Non-
(b) Upper class
(c) Lower class
(d) Middle class

4. The author most dislikes the visible __________ at the restaurant where she works since they complain and never leave good tips.
(a) Tourists
(b) Christians
(c) Elite
(d) Republicans

5. Barbara is also not willing to make up a _____________ in order to pad her resume as she is going off to find jobs.
(a) Work life
(b) Husband
(c) False life
(d) Number of children

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara not want to mention when she is out in her new working life?

2. The other restaurant that Barbara works at during her time in Florida is called ___________, a chain with huge food and calorie packed dishes.

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. When the drug testing is supposed to begin, the employees speculate that it is _________ who is guilty of the drug issue.

5. What does Ehrenreich discover about her uniform when she is heading over to her second job?

(see the answer key)

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