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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. The Preamble Center for Public Policy noted that the odds against a typical welfare recipient's landing a job at a ______ were about 97 to 1.
(a) Minimum age
(b) Factory
(c) Restaurant
(d) Living wage

2. Barbara begins to realize that minimum wage workers are no less ____________ or intelligent than she is.
(a) Exhausted
(b) Bored
(c) Eager
(d) Capable

3. Barbara wondered why there wasn't more indignation about her ruse, realizing that it was probably because people's notion of __________ is different than she thinks it should be.
(a) Working
(b) Lying
(c) Writing
(d) Reporting

4. Who is the tiny busy woman who teaches Barbara the rules of the next job she takes on at the hotel adjacent to the restaurant?
(a) Millie
(b) Holly
(c) Jenny
(d) Betty

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Barbara admits that at the end of the project, she did break down and ____________, stealthily, though, and never within hearing of management.

3. Barbara admits she has two things going for her as a minimum wage worker - she is ________ and she is a native English speaker.

4. Barbara lets a sewer repairman spend a few minutes cooling off with a ________________ before taking his order.

5. What is the name of the cook who occasionally throws meat against the wall during his shift?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the interviewer at a grocery store warn Barbara about when she puts in her application?

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

8. What does the bad tempered cook like to do sometimes back in the kitchen, according to Barbara?

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

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

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