Blue Collar Brilliance
T or F: The author of “Blue Collar Brilliance” is Mike Rose
True
What do the Rock and the Author do in the beginning to middle of the story?
Work out together
What job did Barbra Ehrenreich work as before she became a waitress
What is a writer?
Where is Kachalka Located
Kyiv, Ukraine
What was on the road Ben Lerner drove over
Very black crickets
Where was the story that Blue Collar Brilliance opened with
A restaurant in Los Angeles
Where does Jock Sutherland live?
Hawaii
The name of the restaurant Barbra works at is
What is Jerry's?
What war did Father Capadano serve in?
the Vietnam War
True or False: Ben Lerner wrote that Theodore Roosevelt was one of the founders of ultimate frisbee
False
What does the author think about how intelligence is thought of today?
He thinks it is only about how smart people are in school
What political party is Johnson registered as?
Independent
What is the name of the nineteen-year old-Czech dishwasher
Who is George?
True or False: Kachalka is still around after the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War
True
Why was it so easy for Lerner to achieve his goals on Wikipedia?
He made multiple accounts to protect his changes
What was Rose’s main takeaway from his observations of blue collar workers?
He noticed that just because someone has a blue collar job, doesn't mean they are not smart
What does the Author think about how Johnson portrays himself?
A nice person, engages in conversation, doesn’t talk about himself and wants to know the person
What does Barbara Ehrenreich relate to the restaurant as a Metaphor?
The Human Digestive System
What is the Kachalka gym made out of
Scrap materials repurposed from the country’s Soviet Past
What does Lerner hint at near the end of the essay?
AI becoming the next uncertain thing on the internet
What did Rosie, the author's mother, say about living in restaurants
"There isn’t a day that goes by in the restaurant that you don’t learn something."
Who introduced Jock Sutherland to start surfing
His Father
What type of clothes do they wear at Jerry’s
Pink and Orange Hawaiian Shirts
Father Capadano died giving what to the wounded soldier
Last Rites
What does the image of the crickets stand for at the beginning of the essay?
How many people follow misinformation without checking/amount of misinformation online