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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.
(a) Class
(b) Color
(c) Higher education
(d) Poverty

2. Barbara states, "Someone ought to do the old-fashioned kind of ________ - you know, go out there and try it for themselves."
(a) Writing
(b) Journalism
(c) Investigation
(d) Experiment

3. Barbara realizes that her use of a car is different as many minimum wage workers have to use _________ to get around.
(a) Streets
(b) Their legs
(c) Buses
(d) Friends

4. Barbara makes the common that the ____________ is too low and that someone used to more should try to live with it.
(a) Worker hour restriction
(b) Health benefit package
(c) Break schedule
(d) Minimum wage

5. Barbara begins to realize that when she is a maid, she is not ____________ to be a maid. She really is a maid.
(a) Pretending
(b) Trying
(c) Desiring
(d) Training

6. What does Jerry's restaurant close off to employees since they don't want other employees lingering there during breaks?
(a) Outside area
(b) Bar
(c) Break room
(d) Dining room

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

8. Barbara is surprised that she feels a strong urge to ________ the patrons who she meets.
(a) Avoid
(b) Nuture
(c) Ignore
(d) Impress

9. The management at the restaurant try to keep Barbara __________ at every moment of her shift, even when it's slow.
(a) Busy
(b) Bored
(c) Angry
(d) Happy

10. What are they listening to at full volume as they are cleaning each of the hotel rooms?
(a) Local news
(b) Their headphones
(c) Rap music
(d) Soap operas

11. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, in 1998, the hourly wage necessary to afford a one bedroom apartment was _________.
(a) $8.89
(b) $10.00
(c) $7.50
(d) $6.50

12. Barbara certainly does not want to do hard ________ labor when she is working at her new jobs.
(a) Physical
(b) Slave
(c) Mental
(d) Outside

13. What is the 'dream job' that Barbara lands in addition to her restaurant job, taking on both when in Florida?
(a) Office work
(b) Housekeeping
(c) Librarian
(d) Factory work

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The businesses place ads in the paper so they can always have a pool of __________ from which to hire at any time.

2. When the drug testing is supposed to begin, the employees speculate that it is _________ who is guilty of the drug issue.

3. What is Barbara punished with when she points out that a manager is calling one of his employees by the incorrect name?

4. Since Barbara is far from any grocery store, she needs to live on __________ when she eats.

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

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