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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) $500
(b) $100
(c) $2000
(d) $1000

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

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

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

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

8. The author also doesn't want to live in an _____________ building when she is off on her assignment.
(a) Inferior
(b) Ill built
(c) Illuminated
(d) Apartment

9. What is Barbara punished with when she points out that a manager is calling one of his employees by the incorrect name?
(a) Extra work
(b) Loss of tips
(c) Reduced wages
(d) Being sent home early

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

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

12. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, in 1998, the hourly wage necessary to afford a one bedroom apartment was _________.
(a) $10.00
(b) $7.50
(c) $8.89
(d) $6.50

13. Gail reveals that she had to live in _______ and pee into a plastic bottle after her boyfriend she lives with suddenly dies.
(a) The bathroom
(b) A storage space
(c) A box
(d) A truck

14. Barbara wondered why there wasn't more indignation about her ruse, realizing that it was probably because people's notion of __________ is different than she thinks it should be.
(a) Reporting
(b) Lying
(c) Working
(d) Writing

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Many of the businesses in town seem to place ads in the paper ____________ so as to always have applicants.

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

5. Barbara says that she will not rely on her superior ______________ to support herself.

(see the answer keys)

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