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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 feels to truly replicate the experience of a minimum wage worker, she would need to have a few __________ in tow too.
(a) Children
(b) Bill collectors
(c) Relatives
(d) Boyfriends

2. Barbara begins to realize that minimum wage workers are no less ____________ or intelligent than she is.
(a) Eager
(b) Exhausted
(c) Capable
(d) Bored

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

4. Barbara admits that at the end of the project, she did break down and ____________, stealthily, though, and never within hearing of management.
(a) Admit her assignment
(b) Rant
(c) Laugh
(d) Cry

5. Barbara will keep driving a beat up ____________ car, though she knows many minimum wage workers can not.
(a) Auction
(b) Rent-a-wreck
(c) Expensive
(d) Used

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Barbara notes that her sister constantly complained about the hopelessness of being a ____________.

5. Barbara says that she will not rely on her superior ______________ to support herself.

(see the answer key)

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