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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Barbara does admit that she modified her __________ when she was new at the job and wanted to fit in.
(a) Clothing
(b) Hairstyle
(c) Vocabulary
(d) Makeup

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

3. 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) Working
(d) Reporting

4. What does Barbara not want to mention when she is out in her new working life?
(a) PhD
(b) Her daughters
(c) Her husband
(d) Her hometown

5. Barbara will take the ____________ paying minimum wage job she can find when she's off on assignment.
(a) Highest
(b) Consistently
(c) Lowest
(d) Longest

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Barbara fear employers would think she was if she were to put the PhD on her resumes and applications?

3. The Preamble Center for Public Policy noted that the odds against a typical welfare recipient's landing a job at a ______ were about 97 to 1.

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

5. Barbara is also not willing to make up a _____________ in order to pad her resume as she is going off to find jobs.

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