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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. A middle aged waitress named __________ takes Barbara under her wing when she first begins her new job.
(a) Stella
(b) Holly
(c) Gail
(d) Betty

4. What is the name Barbara uses for the family restaurant where she chooses to work first in Florida?
(a) Hearttown
(b) Hearthville
(c) Hearthside
(d) Heartbreak Hotel

5. As Barbara downs coffee who does she notice is looking haggard when she shows up for her next job?
(a) Carlie
(b) Stu
(c) Millie
(d) George

6. Many of the businesses in town seem to place ads in the paper ____________ so as to always have applicants.
(a) On Mondays
(b) Once in a while
(c) On Sundays
(d) Constantly

7. __________ 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) Chicago
(c) Key West
(d) Key Largo

8. Barbara certainly does not want to do hard ________ labor when she is working at her new jobs.
(a) Physical
(b) Outside
(c) Slave
(d) Mental

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

10. Barbara will take the ____________ paying minimum wage job she can find when she's off on assignment.
(a) Longest
(b) Highest
(c) Consistently
(d) Lowest

11. What are they listening to at full volume as they are cleaning each of the hotel rooms?
(a) Rap music
(b) Their headphones
(c) Local news
(d) Soap operas

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

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

14. 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) Jerry's
(c) Bobby's
(d) Billy's

15. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.
(a) Pretending
(b) Trying
(c) Desiring
(d) Training

Short Answer Questions

1. Since Barbara is far from any grocery store, she needs to live on __________ when she eats.

2. What is Barbara punished with when she points out that a manager is calling one of his employees by the incorrect name?

3. What does Ehrenreich discover about her uniform when she is heading over to her second job?

4. Barbara can not afford gas money because of the $30 she has to spend on a ___________ for her restaurant job.

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

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