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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 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) Curse-filled
(d) Marxist

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

3. 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

4. Barbara realizes that her use of a car is different as many minimum wage workers have to use _________ to get around.
(a) Their legs
(b) Buses
(c) Streets
(d) Friends

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.

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

3. Barbara wondered why there wasn't more indignation about her ruse, realizing that it was probably because people's notion of __________ is different than she thinks it should be.

4. Barbara is concerned that her biggest challenge will be to hide her _____________, even though this does not turn out to be an issue.

5. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.

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