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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Introduction: Getting Ready".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Barbara's PhD in, according to her own admittance?
(a) English
(b) Business
(c) Public Policy
(d) Biology

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

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

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

5. What did Barbara fear employers would think she was if she were to put the PhD on her resumes and applications?
(a) Alcoholic
(b) Reporter
(c) Druggie
(d) Actress

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara admits she has two things going for her as a minimum wage worker - she is ________ and she is a native English speaker.

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

3. Barbara is concerned that her biggest challenge will be to hide her _____________, even though this does not turn out to be an issue.

4. Barbara's father had been a _____________; her uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines or for the Union Pacific.

5. 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.

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