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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. When a manager sees Barbara having a little __________ during her shift, she is scolded, but instead of fighting it, she walks out.
(a) Soup
(b) Break
(c) Sip of water
(d) Smoke

2. Barbara lets a sewer repairman spend a few minutes cooling off with a ________________ before taking his order.
(a) Newspaper fan
(b) Iced tea
(c) Glass of ice water
(d) Fan

3. The author meets a prissy woman who tracks her baby's _______________ with the help of a chart.
(a) Movements
(b) Bowel movements
(c) Words
(d) Growth

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

5. Who is Barbara Ehrenreich's editor, the one who assigns her the story that became this book?
(a) Stu Manshet
(b) Lewis Lapham
(c) Louis Lanston
(d) Joseph Truman

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Barbara rent a room until she is able to find housing that will work for her?

2. Marge and Holly talk about how low wage ____________ even look down on maids when they are out.

3. Barbara admits that at the end of the project, she did break down and ____________, stealthily, though, and never within hearing of management.

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

5. At the Wal-Mart job fair, Barbara fills out a long test which seems to push her into claiming total ___________ and complete obedience.

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