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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 area of the restaurant is locked up when it is assumed that the dishwasher is stealing from the restaurant?
(a) Dry storage
(b) Bathroom
(c) Office
(d) Meat locker

2. What would Barbara use in order to document her daily experiences after her shifts were done for the day?
(a) Laptop
(b) The wall
(c) Journal
(d) Napkins

3. 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

4. At the ____________, the interviewer Barbara meets warns her about labor organizers, to avoid them.
(a) Factory
(b) Drugstore
(c) Wal-Mart
(d) Grocery store

5. 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) Restaurant
(b) Living wage
(c) Factory
(d) Minimum age

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Barbara feels to truly replicate the experience of a minimum wage worker, she would need to have a few __________ in tow too.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens if Barbara thinks she will have to go homeless, even for one night during this experiment?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Once Barbara begins to let go of her elitist attitude, what does she realize about the workers around her?

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

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

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