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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. What is Barbara's PhD in, according to her own admittance?
(a) English
(b) Business
(c) Public Policy
(d) Biology

2. Barbara asks the manager of her trailer park to donate her security deposit to ________.
(a) Millie
(b) Gail
(c) Stu
(d) George

3. Barbara can not afford gas money because of the $30 she has to spend on a ___________ for her restaurant job.
(a) Set of pencils
(b) Uniform
(c) Book
(d) Application fee

4. At what publication does the editor who assigns the story to Barbara work?
(a) Harper's
(b) Ladies Home Journal
(c) Redbook
(d) Glamour

5. Barbara's father had been a _____________; her uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines or for the Union Pacific.
(a) Copper miner
(b) Restaurant owner
(c) Chef
(d) Journalist

Short Answer 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.

2. 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?

3. What is the name of the young Czech dishwasher who Barbara befriends when she is working at the restaurant?

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

5. Barbara lets a sewer repairman spend a few minutes cooling off with a ________________ before taking his order.

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