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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Barbara states, "Someone ought to do the old-fashioned kind of ________ - you know, go out there and try it for themselves."
(a) Investigation
(b) Experiment
(c) Journalism
(d) Writing

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

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

5. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.
(a) Pain
(b) Poverty
(c) Risk
(d) Inauthenticity

6. 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

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

9. 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) Raley's
(c) Billy's
(d) Jerry's

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

11. Barbara lets a sewer repairman spend a few minutes cooling off with a ________________ before taking his order.
(a) Glass of ice water
(b) Fan
(c) Newspaper fan
(d) Iced tea

12. When the drug testing is supposed to begin, the employees speculate that it is _________ who is guilty of the drug issue.
(a) Joseph
(b) Gail
(c) Stu
(d) Billy

13. 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.
(a) Liberal
(b) Curse-filled
(c) Long-winded
(d) Marxist

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

15. The manager, ________, yells at Barbara for a confused breakfast and a yuppie customer complains too.
(a) Stu
(b) Joy
(c) George
(d) Millie

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. __________ is a city in which Barbara is afraid she might be recognized, so she looks for work in a nearby city.

4. Barbara ruled out areas like LA and New York as the working class consists mainly of people of _______ and she might look out of place.

5. The author also doesn't want to live in an _____________ building when she is off on her assignment.

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