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

Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Raley's
(b) Billy's
(c) Bobby's
(d) Jerry's

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

3. Some of the coworkers have to pay $60 a night for a hotel room because they can not save up the ___________ for a first and last month rent payment.
(a) $100
(b) $500
(c) $2000
(d) $1000

4. Barbara's father had been a _____________; her uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines or for the Union Pacific.
(a) Journalist
(b) Chef
(c) Restaurant owner
(d) Copper miner

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

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

7. The other staff of the hotel refuses to exchange _________ with the housekeepers or show any sort of respect.
(a) Pleasantries
(b) Compliments
(c) Duties
(d) Names

8. __________ is a city in which Barbara is afraid she might be recognized, so she looks for work in a nearby city.
(a) New York
(b) Key Largo
(c) Chicago
(d) Key West

9. Barbara can not afford gas money because of the $30 she has to spend on a ___________ for her restaurant job.
(a) Book
(b) Uniform
(c) Set of pencils
(d) Application fee

10. Barbara admits she has two things going for her as a minimum wage worker - she is ________ and she is a native English speaker.
(a) Woman
(b) White
(c) Available
(d) Educated

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

12. What does Ehrenreich discover about her uniform when she is heading over to her second job?
(a) It is too small
(b) It is stained
(c) It is ripped
(d) It is at home

13. At the ____________, the interviewer Barbara meets warns her about labor organizers, to avoid them.
(a) Factory
(b) Grocery store
(c) Drugstore
(d) Wal-Mart

14. Barbara is surprised that she feels a strong urge to ________ the patrons who she meets.
(a) Impress
(b) Avoid
(c) Ignore
(d) Nuture

15. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.
(a) Worker hour restriction
(b) Health benefit package
(c) Minimum wage
(d) Break schedule

Short Answer Questions

1. Later it is rumored that Stu was guilty of stealing money to support his __________ habit.

2. Barbara does admit that she modified her __________ when she was new at the job and wanted to fit in.

3. Barbara lets a sewer repairman spend a few minutes cooling off with a ________________ before taking his order.

4. What area of the restaurant is locked up when it is assumed that the dishwasher is stealing from the restaurant?

5. 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.

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