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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. Barbara will take the ____________ paying minimum wage job she can find when she's off on assignment.
(a) Highest
(b) Consistently
(c) Lowest
(d) Longest

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

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

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. One manager threatens to take the _______________ privilege from the employees even though this is their only hideout to smoke or eat.

2. Barbara began to realize that the only thing that made her special and separate from others at her workplace was her lack of __________.

3. At the ____________, the interviewer Barbara meets warns her about labor organizers, to avoid them.

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

5. What would Barbara use in order to document her daily experiences after her shifts were done for the day?

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. What is Barbara's fear about working in the area where she currently lives, Key West?

3. Why does Barbara want to take on the assignment she actually suggested be done?

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

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

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

7. What do the managers do to Barbara when she is an employee at Hearthside, she realizes as she continues to work there?

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

9. If things get too rough during this experiment, what does Barbara say she will do in order to feel herself or to support herself?

10. When Stu says that drugs have been found at the restaurant, what do the employees speculate about this action?

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