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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Barbara notes that her sister constantly complained about the hopelessness of being a ____________.
(a) Woman
(b) Waitress
(c) Minimum wage worker
(d) Wage slave

4. 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.
(a) Factory
(b) Minimum age
(c) Living wage
(d) Restaurant

5. Barbara will give up completely on the project if it seems she will be ___________, if only for one night.
(a) Hungry
(b) Homeless
(c) Out of contact
(d) Sick

Short Answer Questions

1. When the going gets too rough for Barbara, she admits she will use ____________ to get by.

2. Barbara certainly does not want to do hard ________ labor when she is working at her new jobs.

3. Barbara realizes that her use of a car is different as many minimum wage workers have to use _________ to get around.

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

5. Barbara's father had been a _____________; her uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines or for the Union Pacific.

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