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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the cook who occasionally throws meat against the wall during his shift?
(a) Roger
(b) Billy
(c) Stu
(d) Joseph

2. Since Barbara is far from any grocery store, she needs to live on __________ when she eats.
(a) Fast food
(b) Work food
(c) Diet soda
(d) Energy bars

3. The businesses place ads in the paper so they can always have a pool of __________ from which to hire at any time.
(a) Cheap labor
(b) Applications
(c) Desperate workers
(d) Women

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

5. 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) Billy
(d) Stu

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. What is the name of the young Czech dishwasher who Barbara befriends when she is working at the restaurant?

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

4. The author most dislikes the visible __________ at the restaurant where she works since they complain and never leave good tips.

5. What does Jerry's restaurant close off to employees since they don't want other employees lingering there during breaks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first apartment that Barbara finds when she is out looking for her first new 'home' for the assignment.

2. How long a period of time will the author spend in each location?

3. What will Barbara not rely on in order to get a job and to support herself, as one of the rules of her experiment?

4. What will Barbara drive when she is a part of this experiment in working for minimum wage?

5. How much does Barbara think she will have to make in order to pay her rent and for food during her stay in Florida?

6. What statement does the author make which leads to her getting the assignment to write this book?

7. What does Barbara find out about Gail and what she has to do when her boyfriend suddenly dies?

8. What does Barbara feel she is compelled to do with the patrons at Hearthside, where she works as a waitress?

9. Why doesn't Barbara think the physical exertion of her new job should be bothering her so much?

10. Why do people end up living with others or in conditions they don't want to live in, according to Barbara?

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