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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, "Serving in Florida".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At what publication does the editor who assigns the story to Barbara work?
(a) Harper's
(b) Glamour
(c) Redbook
(d) Ladies Home Journal

3. Barbara is also not willing to make up a _____________ in order to pad her resume as she is going off to find jobs.
(a) Husband
(b) Number of children
(c) False life
(d) Work life

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The other restaurant that Barbara works at during her time in Florida is called ___________, a chain with huge food and calorie packed dishes.

2. 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.

3. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.

4. Barbara states, "Someone ought to do the old-fashioned kind of ________ - you know, go out there and try it for themselves."

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

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