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

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.
(a) Factory
(b) Minimum age
(c) Living wage
(d) Restaurant

3. 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) Admit her assignment
(c) Laugh
(d) Rant

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.

2. Barbara began to realize that the only thing that made her special and separate from others at her workplace was her lack of __________.

3. Barbara realizes that her use of a car is different as many minimum wage workers have to use _________ to get around.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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