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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.
(a) Minimum age
(b) Factory
(c) Living wage
(d) Restaurant

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

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

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

5. Barbara is also not willing to make up a _____________ in order to pad her resume as she is going off to find jobs.
(a) Work life
(b) Number of children
(c) False life
(d) Husband

Short Answer Questions

1. Barbara feels to truly replicate the experience of a minimum wage worker, she would need to have a few __________ in tow too.

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

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

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

5. The author also doesn't want to live in an _____________ building when she is off on her assignment.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why doesn't Barbara think the physical exertion of her new job should be bothering her so much?

4. What happens if Barbara thinks she will have to go homeless, even for one night during this experiment?

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

6. What statement does the author make which leads to her getting the assignment to write this book?

7. Describe the first apartment that Barbara finds when she is out looking for her first new 'home' for the assignment.

8. What do the managers do to Barbara when she is an employee at Hearthside, she realizes as she continues to work there?

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

10. How much does Barbara think she will have to make in order to pay her rent and for food during her stay in Florida?

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