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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. In what department does Barbara find she will work when she is as employee for Wal-Mart?

2. The Maids calculate their wages by ________, which makes it difficult to know what a person is being paid.

3. The thing Barbara hates to clean most of all is _________ in the bathrooms of their customers.

4. Which department is Barbara placed into when she goes back to Menards to find out about the job?

5. What does Barbara have to care for when she stays in a friend's house at the beginning of her adventure in Minnesota?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the unattractive young cook at the elder care facility reveal to Barbara as they are out on a smoke break?

2. Why so the Maids think that the job they are offering is easy for someone to learn and to do?

3. What is the one upside of the Twin Lakes apartment that compels Barbara to sign up for a lease there?

4. When Barbara's skin breaks out in an odd rash, what does her boss seem to think the problem is?

5. What surprises Barbara about the cleaning method of The Maids, as described in the book?

6. Describe what 'time theft' is according to Wal-Mart and its slick produced videos that the author watches during orientation.

7. When Barbara goes back to Wal-Mart in order to fill out a new test, what happens when she gets a few wrong?

8. Why does the author decide to go to Maine for her next working assignment?

9. After Barbara takes her drug test, what does she do in terms of her job hunting?

10. What are the titles that Wal-Mart wants its employees to think of themselves as?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The minimum wage workers are kept down and continue to be kept down in modern times. With this idea in mind, it seems that maybe there is a reason for the poverty level to exist.

Part 1: Why might there be a need for poverty level workers in the world?

Part 2: What might happen if the poverty level workers were not around to fill the positions they are in?

Part 3: Do you think it's realistic to have a goal of removing poverty and minimum wage workers completely? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The working conditions in which you work might change you, according to Barbara.

Part 1: Why might the working conditions in which you are placed change the person you are?

Part 2: How do companies attempt to reshape and to mold the employees they have hired?

Part 3: What do you think happens when some people refuse to change for the job in which they have been hired? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Many times, the workers Barbara is with seem resigned to the life in which they have been a part.

Part 1: Why do you think the workers Barbara meets don't really understand that things could be better?

Part 2: Why do you think the workers around Barbara don't know their rights and don't believe them when Barbara tells them what they should expect?

Part 3: Why do you think the workers aren't motivated to do more for themselves?

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