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

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

3. Barbara feels to truly replicate the experience of a minimum wage worker, she would need to have a few __________ in tow too.
(a) Relatives
(b) Bill collectors
(c) Boyfriends
(d) Children

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

5. 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) $500
(c) $1000
(d) $100

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long do Carlie and Barbara work before they take a break from their housekeeping work?

3. 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.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Barbara think, at the start of the experiment, will be the biggest challenge during this assignment?

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

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 is the one thing that Barbara says she will not mention as she is applying and working during this experiment?

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

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

7. What is surprising to Barbara about the many places to which she has applied for a job?

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

9. What are some of the other reasons why Barbara doesn't really want to take on the assignment of working for minimum wage?

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

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