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

2. Who is Barbara Ehrenreich's editor, the one who assigns her the story that became this book?
(a) Lewis Lapham
(b) Stu Manshet
(c) Louis Lanston
(d) Joseph Truman

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

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) Work life
(c) Husband
(d) False life

5. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.
(a) Poverty
(b) Inauthenticity
(c) Risk
(d) Pain

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

3. 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.

4. Barbara will take the ____________ paying minimum wage job she can find when she's off on assignment.

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

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