Q 01/05

Which retail giant hires Barbara Ehrenreich as a sales associate in the Minnesota chapter of Nickel and Dimed?

A) Wal-Mart

B) Target

C) Kmart

D) JCPenney

Answer · why

A) Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart paid her seven dollars an hour after a day-long orientation on company history and philosophy. The manager who hired her said that philosophy...

Q 02/05

The title Nickel and Dimed borrows an idiom for losing money to what?

A) One crushing debt

B) A sudden market crash

C) Many small charges

D) A dishonest partner

Answer · why

C) Many small charges

Many small charges that add up beyond expectations is the idea behind the idiom. Ehrenreich turns it on low-wage workers, whose spirit and dignity she...

Q 03/05

Before becoming a journalist, Nickel and Dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich earned a doctorate in which field?

A) Sociology

B) Economics

C) Cell biology

D) American history

Answer · why

C) Cell biology

Cell biology was her doctoral subject at Rockefeller University, and it shaped the book. She agreed to the assignment by treating each month of low-wa...

Q 04/05

Nickel and Dimed opens with Barbara Ehrenreich waitressing in which Florida resort town near her own home?

A) Daytona Beach

B) Fort Lauderdale

C) Palm Beach

D) Key West

Answer · why

D) Key West

Key West was too expensive for a server to live in, so she rented an efficiency apartment thirty miles away. She had picked the town to stay close to ...

Q 05/05

What did Joan Holden adapt Nickel and Dimed into in 2002, with a premiere in Seattle?

A) A stage play

B) A feature film

C) A TV miniseries

D) A radio drama

Answer · why

A) A stage play

A stage play was the result, and companies across the country have performed it since. Holden had spent 32 years as resident writer of the San Francis...