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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Women
(c) Applications
(d) Cheap labor

3. Barbara asks the manager of her trailer park to donate her security deposit to ________.
(a) Millie
(b) Gail
(c) Stu
(d) George

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

5. 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

6. Who is Barbara Ehrenreich's editor, the one who assigns her the story that became this book?
(a) Louis Lanston
(b) Joseph Truman
(c) Stu Manshet
(d) Lewis Lapham

7. The other restaurant that Barbara works at during her time in Florida is called ___________, a chain with huge food and calorie packed dishes.
(a) Bobby's
(b) Jerry's
(c) Raley's
(d) Billy's

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

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

10. When the going gets too rough for Barbara, she admits she will use ____________ to get by.
(a) Begging
(b) Checks
(c) Her resume
(d) Credit cards

11. Barbara says that she will not rely on her superior ______________ to support herself.
(a) Education
(b) Resume
(c) Name recognition
(d) Literacy

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

13. Later it is rumored that Stu was guilty of stealing money to support his __________ habit.
(a) Cigarette
(b) Alcohol
(c) Marijuana
(d) Crack cocaine

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

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

Short Answer 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.

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.

3. What would Barbara use in order to document her daily experiences after her shifts were done for the day?

4. A middle aged waitress named __________ takes Barbara under her wing when she first begins her new job.

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

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