Background
Plot
Stylistic Choices
Figurative Language
100

Ehrenreich got her doctorate in this field.

Biology

100

The first paragraph of the passage describes this restaurant.

Jerry's

100

Ehrenreich uses ____ to add details to her sentences.

Dashes

100
A personification in the passage involves both Tylenol and ____.

Aleve

200

Serving in Florida is a chapter from this book.

Nickle and Dimed

200

Ehrenreich quits her job at this place.

The Hearthside

200

Ehrenreich has a ____ attitude towards George.

Sympathetic, caring

200

A simile compares George to a perfect straight ____.

Arrow

300

Ehrenreich received her Ph.D from this university

Rockefeller University

300

The bathroom at Jerry's was always missing at least one of these three things.

Soap, paper towels, and toilet paper

300

This is Ehrenreich's purpose.

To present to her audience the lifestyle of minimum wage workers and criticize the system in place to capitalize on their suffering.

300

Ehrenreich uses metaphor to compare the kitchen to this human system. 

Digestive

400

Name one reason Ehrenreich decided to travel across the country.

To experience a minimum-wage lifestyle in America; To compare different jobs in the country; to conduct research/journalism.

400

This was the base pay of Ehrenreich's job at Jerry's. 

$2.15

400

This is the main reason Ehrenreich uses italics 

To emphasize the demanding tone of her coworkers.

400

What country does Ehrenreich allude to when she asks George about the Velvet Revolution?

Former Czechoslovakia.

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