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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Introduction: Getting Ready".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Barbara realizes that her use of a car is different as many minimum wage workers have to use _________ to get around.
(a) Friends
(b) Streets
(c) Their legs
(d) Buses

3. For what magazine does the author of "Nickel and Dimed" work when she is beginning her assignment?
(a) New Yorker
(b) New England Journal
(c) NY Gazette
(d) New York Times

4. Barbara is also not willing to make up a _____________ in order to pad her resume as she is going off to find jobs.
(a) Number of children
(b) Husband
(c) False life
(d) Work life

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.

2. Barbara began to realize that the only thing that made her special and separate from others at her workplace was her lack of __________.

3. What did Barbara fear employers would think she was if she were to put the PhD on her resumes and applications?

4. Barbara ruled out areas like LA and New York as the working class consists mainly of people of _______ and she might look out of place.

5. Who is Barbara Ehrenreich's editor, the one who assigns her the story that became this book?

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