Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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 | Eight Week Quiz B

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 1, "Serving in Florida".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the going gets too rough for Barbara, she admits she will use ____________ to get by.
(a) Checks
(b) Begging
(c) Credit cards
(d) Her resume

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) Outside area
(d) Dining room

3. What is the name of the cook who occasionally throws meat against the wall during his shift?
(a) Roger
(b) Stu
(c) Billy
(d) Joseph

4. The other restaurant that Barbara works at during her time in Florida is called ___________, a chain with huge food and calorie packed dishes.
(a) Bobby's
(b) Jerry's
(c) Billy's
(d) Raley's

5. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.
(a) Inauthenticity
(b) Pain
(c) Poverty
(d) Risk

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Barbara's PhD in, according to her own admittance?

2. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.

3. One manager threatens to take the _______________ privilege from the employees even though this is their only hideout to smoke or eat.

4. Barbara admits she has two things going for her as a minimum wage worker - she is ________ and she is a native English speaker.

5. Barbara will keep driving a beat up ____________ car, though she knows many minimum wage workers can not.

(see the answer key)

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