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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the tiny busy woman who teaches Barbara the rules of the next job she takes on at the hotel adjacent to the restaurant?
(a) Millie
(b) Holly
(c) Betty
(d) Jenny

2. Barbara promises to spend a _________ in each location in order to get a sense of the area.
(a) Year
(b) Few months
(c) Month
(d) Week

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

4. What is the name of the young Czech dishwasher who Barbara befriends when she is working at the restaurant?
(a) Stu
(b) Joseph
(c) Billy
(d) George

5. What does Barbara not want to mention when she is out in her new working life?
(a) Her hometown
(b) PhD
(c) Her husband
(d) Her daughters

6. Barbara began to realize that the only thing that made her special and separate from others at her workplace was her lack of __________.
(a) Debt
(b) Ripped clothing
(c) Experience
(d) Driver's license

7. The author most dislikes the visible __________ at the restaurant where she works since they complain and never leave good tips.
(a) Christians
(b) Elite
(c) Republicans
(d) Tourists

8. The businesses place ads in the paper so they can always have a pool of __________ from which to hire at any time.
(a) Desperate workers
(b) Cheap labor
(c) Women
(d) Applications

9. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.
(a) Inauthenticity
(b) Poverty
(c) Pain
(d) Risk

10. Barbara ruled out areas like LA and New York as the working class consists mainly of people of _______ and she might look out of place.
(a) Color
(b) Poverty
(c) Higher education
(d) Class

11. Barbara realizes she will need ____________ in order to pay for her apartment.
(a) More tips
(b) To stop driving
(c) Less food
(d) Another job

12. One manager threatens to take the _______________ privilege from the employees even though this is their only hideout to smoke or eat.
(a) Office
(b) Break room
(c) Outside
(d) Bar

13. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.
(a) Upper class
(b) Lower class
(c) Middle class
(d) Non-

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

15. Barbara states, "Someone ought to do the old-fashioned kind of ________ - you know, go out there and try it for themselves."
(a) Writing
(b) Journalism
(c) Experiment
(d) Investigation

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara feels to truly replicate the experience of a minimum wage worker, she would need to have a few __________ in tow too.

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

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

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

5. __________ is a city in which Barbara is afraid she might be recognized, so she looks for work in a nearby city.

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