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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Closing remarks, "Evaluation".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what publication does the editor who assigns the story to Barbara work?
(a) Glamour
(b) Harper's
(c) Redbook
(d) Ladies Home Journal

2. Barbara describes a feeling of hopeless __________ in her position as a maid, even when she is in public in her uniform.
(a) Invisibility
(b) Anger
(c) Poverty
(d) Frustration

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

4. The author also doesn't want to live in an _____________ building when she is off on her assignment.
(a) Apartment
(b) Inferior
(c) Illuminated
(d) Ill built

5. What does the author have to do once she is done with the testing process at Wal-Mart?
(a) Train five new people
(b) Start a shift
(c) Drug test
(d) Read a book

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara notes that she made a rule that she had to work hard at her jobs to keep them, not go off on ________ rants or sneak off to read novels in the ladies' room.

2. Despite the miraculous vacuum cleaner, Lori and Pauline's __________ are ruined and wrecked.

3. Some of the coworkers have to pay $60 a night for a hotel room because they can not save up the ___________ for a first and last month rent payment.

4. The obvious __________ of the sales company is a breath of fresh air for the author compared to the false concern from Wal-Mart.

5. When Barbara returns to her home in Clearview, she finds out that __________ is covering the floor of her room, requiring her to move to a new one.

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