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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the tiny busy woman who teaches Barbara the rules of the next job she takes on at the hotel adjacent to the restaurant?
(a) Holly
(b) Jenny
(c) Millie
(d) Betty

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

4. 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) $2000
(b) $1000
(c) $500
(d) $100

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

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

7. How long do Carlie and Barbara work before they take a break from their housekeeping work?
(a) 4 hours
(b) 8 hours
(c) 5 hours
(d) 10 hours

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

9. Barbara is concerned that her biggest challenge will be to hide her _____________, even though this does not turn out to be an issue.
(a) Car
(b) Jewelry
(c) Writing career
(d) Education

10. Barbara will give up completely on the project if it seems she will be ___________, if only for one night.
(a) Hungry
(b) Homeless
(c) Out of contact
(d) Sick

11. The management at the restaurant try to keep Barbara __________ at every moment of her shift, even when it's slow.
(a) Busy
(b) Angry
(c) Happy
(d) Bored

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

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

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

15. What did Barbara fear employers would think she was if she were to put the PhD on her resumes and applications?
(a) Reporter
(b) Alcoholic
(c) Druggie
(d) Actress

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Barbara walks out of the restaurant, she feels _______ instead of feeling enraged, as she expects to.

3. Barbara is surprised that she feels a strong urge to ________ the patrons who she meets.

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

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

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