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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) Ladies Home Journal
(b) Harper's
(c) Glamour
(d) Redbook

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

3. Barbara will take the ____________ paying minimum wage job she can find when she's off on assignment.
(a) Longest
(b) Lowest
(c) Highest
(d) Consistently

4. 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.
(a) Long-winded
(b) Liberal
(c) Marxist
(d) Curse-filled

5. Barbara admits she has two things going for her as a minimum wage worker - she is ________ and she is a native English speaker.
(a) Available
(b) Woman
(c) White
(d) Educated

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The author also doesn't want to live in an _____________ building when she is off on her assignment.

4. Barbara will give up completely on the project if it seems she will be ___________, if only for one night.

5. Barbara is also not willing to make up a _____________ in order to pad her resume as she is going off to find jobs.

(see the answer key)

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