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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 is surprised that she feels a strong urge to ________ the patrons who she meets.
(a) Avoid
(b) Impress
(c) Nuture
(d) Ignore

2. Barbara began to realize that the only thing that made her special and separate from others at her workplace was her lack of __________.
(a) Experience
(b) Ripped clothing
(c) Driver's license
(d) Debt

3. Barbara realizes that her use of a car is different as many minimum wage workers have to use _________ to get around.
(a) Friends
(b) Buses
(c) Streets
(d) Their legs

4. 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) Factory
(b) Living wage
(c) Restaurant
(d) Minimum age

5. Barbara certainly does not want to do hard ________ labor when she is working at her new jobs.
(a) Mental
(b) Outside
(c) Slave
(d) Physical

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Barbara promises to spend a _________ in each location in order to get a sense of the area.

5. What is the 'dream job' that Barbara lands in addition to her restaurant job, taking on both when in Florida?

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