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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barbara not want to mention when she is out in her new working life?

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

3. Gail reveals that she had to live in _______ and pee into a plastic bottle after her boyfriend she lives with suddenly dies.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of job does Barbara say that she will take, money-wise, at least at the start of the experiment?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The costs of housing seem to be higher than one might expect, even for the year in which the author attempted this study.

Part 1: Why do you think housing costs are so high for such horrible apartments?

Part 2: Why do you think society and the government doesn't seem to recognize how exorbitant the housing prices are?

Part 3: Do you think housing prices can ever be completely fair? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The idea of poverty is one of the most complex issues this world seems to be unable and often unwilling to tackle.

Part 1: How do you define the idea of poverty? Can there be only one definition? Why or why not?

Part 2: Why do you think poverty is so hard for governments to manage?

Part 3: Why do you think people slide into poverty and poverty-conditions?

Essay Topic 3

One of the biggest beliefs the author holds about the way a person can better themselves in the world is that education can allow a person to do anything and to be something more.

Part 1: How does the author's educational level help her in the process of this project?

Part 2: Why do you think the other workers around the author don't realize she is more educated than them?

Part 3: Why do you think the author expected the others she worked with to notice her educational level? What does this say about the author?

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