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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.
(a) Non-
(b) Upper class
(c) Middle class
(d) Lower class

2. Barbara states, "Someone ought to do the old-fashioned kind of ________ - you know, go out there and try it for themselves."
(a) Investigation
(b) Experiment
(c) Journalism
(d) Writing

3. How long do Carlie and Barbara work before they take a break from their housekeeping work?
(a) 5 hours
(b) 10 hours
(c) 4 hours
(d) 8 hours

4. Barbara certainly does not want to do hard ________ labor when she is working at her new jobs.
(a) Physical
(b) Slave
(c) Mental
(d) Outside

5. Barbara begins to realize that minimum wage workers are no less ____________ or intelligent than she is.
(a) Capable
(b) Eager
(c) Bored
(d) Exhausted

6. What does Barbara not want to mention when she is out in her new working life?
(a) Her hometown
(b) Her husband
(c) PhD
(d) Her daughters

7. Barbara admits she has two things going for her as a minimum wage worker - she is ________ and she is a native English speaker.
(a) Woman
(b) White
(c) Available
(d) Educated

8. What is the name of the cook who occasionally throws meat against the wall during his shift?
(a) Roger
(b) Billy
(c) Stu
(d) Joseph

9. When the going gets too rough for Barbara, she admits she will use ____________ to get by.
(a) Checks
(b) Her resume
(c) Credit cards
(d) Begging

10. Barbara can not afford gas money because of the $30 she has to spend on a ___________ for her restaurant job.
(a) Set of pencils
(b) Application fee
(c) Uniform
(d) Book

11. What does Jerry's restaurant close off to employees since they don't want other employees lingering there during breaks?
(a) Outside area
(b) Break room
(c) Bar
(d) Dining room

12. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.
(a) Minimum wage
(b) Break schedule
(c) Worker hour restriction
(d) Health benefit package

13. Barbara says that she will not rely on her superior ______________ to support herself.
(a) Name recognition
(b) Education
(c) Resume
(d) Literacy

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

15. Gail reveals that she had to live in _______ and pee into a plastic bottle after her boyfriend she lives with suddenly dies.
(a) A storage space
(b) The bathroom
(c) A truck
(d) A box

Short Answer Questions

1. The other staff of the hotel refuses to exchange _________ with the housekeepers or show any sort of respect.

2. For what magazine does the author of "Nickel and Dimed" work when she is beginning her assignment?

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

4. What is Barbara punished with when she points out that a manager is calling one of his employees by the incorrect name?

5. Since Barbara is far from any grocery store, she needs to live on __________ when she eats.

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