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

2. Barbara lets a sewer repairman spend a few minutes cooling off with a ________________ before taking his order.
(a) Fan
(b) Glass of ice water
(c) Iced tea
(d) Newspaper fan

3. 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.
(a) Class
(b) Higher education
(c) Color
(d) Poverty

4. 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) Writing
(b) Lying
(c) Reporting
(d) Working

5. Barbara states, "Someone ought to do the old-fashioned kind of ________ - you know, go out there and try it for themselves."
(a) Writing
(b) Experiment
(c) Investigation
(d) Journalism

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ehrenreich discover about her uniform when she is heading over to her second job?

3. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.

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

5. What area of the restaurant is locked up when it is assumed that the dishwasher is stealing from the restaurant?

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

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

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

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

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

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 feel she is compelled to do with the patrons at Hearthside, where she works as a waitress?

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

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

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