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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. When a manager sees Barbara having a little __________ during her shift, she is scolded, but instead of fighting it, she walks out.
(a) Break
(b) Smoke
(c) Sip of water
(d) Soup

2. Barbara's father had been a _____________; her uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines or for the Union Pacific.
(a) Journalist
(b) Copper miner
(c) Restaurant owner
(d) Chef

3. Barbara will keep driving a beat up ____________ car, though she knows many minimum wage workers can not.
(a) Auction
(b) Rent-a-wreck
(c) Used
(d) Expensive

4. Barbara began to realize that the only thing that made her special and separate from others at her workplace was her lack of __________.
(a) Ripped clothing
(b) Experience
(c) Debt
(d) Driver's license

5. 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.
(a) Liberal
(b) Curse-filled
(c) Marxist
(d) Long-winded

Short Answer Questions

1. Having spend her life with ____________ struggling people, the author is not happy about getting the assignment.

2. Barbara asks the manager of her trailer park to donate her security deposit to ________.

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

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

5. Barbara does not want to live a life of _________ or discomfort when it comes to this new assignment.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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