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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) Meat locker
(b) Office
(c) Dry storage
(d) Bathroom

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

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

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

5. When a manager sees Barbara having a little __________ during her shift, she is scolded, but instead of fighting it, she walks out.
(a) Soup
(b) Smoke
(c) Sip of water
(d) Break

6. 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

7. What is the 'dream job' that Barbara lands in addition to her restaurant job, taking on both when in Florida?
(a) Office work
(b) Housekeeping
(c) Factory work
(d) Librarian

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

9. 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) Woman
(c) White
(d) Available

10. Barbara realizes that her use of a car is different as many minimum wage workers have to use _________ to get around.
(a) Friends
(b) Streets
(c) Their legs
(d) Buses

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

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

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

14. Barbara does admit that she modified her __________ when she was new at the job and wanted to fit in.
(a) Makeup
(b) Vocabulary
(c) Hairstyle
(d) Clothing

15. Many of the businesses in town seem to place ads in the paper ____________ so as to always have applicants.
(a) Constantly
(b) Once in a while
(c) On Mondays
(d) On Sundays

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.

2. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.

3. What is the name Barbara uses for the family restaurant where she chooses to work first in Florida?

4. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.

5. Barbara promises to spend a _________ in each location in order to get a sense of the area.

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