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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, "Selling in Minnesota,".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is hurting Barbara as she is filling up the dishwasher with dishes and carrying away the dirty items?
(a) Her hands
(b) Her back
(c) Her head
(d) Nothing

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

3. Barbara does admit that she modified her __________ when she was new at the job and wanted to fit in.
(a) Makeup
(b) Vocabulary
(c) Clothing
(d) Hairstyle

4. Wal-Mart contends that _______ take money from workers and risk the wages of workers
(a) Unions
(b) Thieves
(c) Outsiders
(d) Time thieves

5. Barbara notes that her sister constantly complained about the hopelessness of being a ____________.
(a) Waitress
(b) Wage slave
(c) Minimum wage worker
(d) Woman

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara admits she has two things going for her as a minimum wage worker - she is ________ and she is a native English speaker.

2. Because of the low wages that are paid in the area, people who are working at minimum wage are expected to ____________.

3. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, in 1998, the hourly wage necessary to afford a one bedroom apartment was _________.

4. Barbara will keep driving a beat up ____________ car, though she knows many minimum wage workers can not.

5. What is the next place Barbara goes to in order to try to avoid drug testing and get more money?

(see the answer key)

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