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

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 F

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 3, "Selling in Minnesota,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Barbara notes she feels like a fugitive on this assignment, becoming obsessed with the few __________ she's brought along.
(a) Credit cards
(b) Newspapers
(c) Possessions
(d) Dollars

2. What are they listening to at full volume as they are cleaning each of the hotel rooms?
(a) Local news
(b) Soap operas
(c) Rap music
(d) Their headphones

3. _____________ is a woman who simply picked up and moved to Florida because she heard the rents were better than New Jersey.
(a) Dawn
(b) Margerie
(c) Caroline
(d) Milly

4. Barbara will take the ____________ paying minimum wage job she can find when she's off on assignment.
(a) Highest
(b) Consistently
(c) Lowest
(d) Longest

5. _____________ has to support her husband and an elderly relative on 30 to 50 dollars each week.
(a) Pauline
(b) Margerie
(c) Rosalie
(d) Holly

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.

2. As Barbara downs coffee who does she notice is looking haggard when she shows up for her next job?

3. A middle aged waitress named __________ takes Barbara under her wing when she first begins her new job.

4. What does the author have to do once she is done with the testing process at Wal-Mart?

5. Barbara says that she will not rely on her superior ______________ to support herself.

(see the answer key)

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