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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, in 1998, the hourly wage necessary to afford a one bedroom apartment was _________.
(a) $7.50
(b) $8.89
(c) $10.00
(d) $6.50

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

4. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.
(a) Pretending
(b) Desiring
(c) Training
(d) Trying

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Preamble Center for Public Policy noted that the odds against a typical welfare recipient's landing a job at a ______ were about 97 to 1.

2. 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.

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

4. At what publication does the editor who assigns the story to Barbara work?

5. Barbara will keep driving a beat up ____________ car, though she knows many minimum wage workers can not.

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