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

2. 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

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

4. Barbara certainly does not want to do hard ________ labor when she is working at her new jobs.
(a) Outside
(b) Slave
(c) Physical
(d) Mental

5. Barbara will give up completely on the project if it seems she will be ___________, if only for one night.
(a) Out of contact
(b) Homeless
(c) Hungry
(d) Sick

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. For what magazine does the author of "Nickel and Dimed" work when she is beginning her assignment?

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

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