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

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

3. What did Barbara fear employers would think she was if she were to put the PhD on her resumes and applications?
(a) Actress
(b) Druggie
(c) Reporter
(d) Alcoholic

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) Work life
(b) False life
(c) Number of children
(d) Husband

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

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. Barbara admits she has two things going for her as a minimum wage worker - she is ________ and she is a native English speaker.

3. What is Barbara's PhD in, according to her own admittance?

4. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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