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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area of the restaurant is locked up when it is assumed that the dishwasher is stealing from the restaurant?
(a) Office
(b) Bathroom
(c) Dry storage
(d) Meat locker

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) Factory
(d) Restaurant

3. 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) Woman
(d) White

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

5. What does Jerry's restaurant close off to employees since they don't want other employees lingering there during breaks?
(a) Break room
(b) Dining room
(c) Bar
(d) Outside area

6. 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

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

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

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

10. For what magazine does the author of "Nickel and Dimed" work when she is beginning her assignment?
(a) New England Journal
(b) New Yorker
(c) New York Times
(d) NY Gazette

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

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

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

14. When Barbara is paired up with Carlie on her first shift, Carlie is angry they have 19 _________ to swab down in just one shift.
(a) Beach chairs
(b) Bathrooms
(c) Urinals
(d) Rooms

15. When Barbara walks out of the restaurant, she feels _______ instead of feeling enraged, as she expects to.
(a) Relieved
(b) Defeat
(c) Happy
(d) Grateful

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara notes that she made a rule that she had to work hard at her jobs to keep them, not go off on ________ rants or sneak off to read novels in the ladies' room.

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

3. Barbara will give up completely on the project if it seems she will be ___________, if only for one night.

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

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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