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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 author meets a prissy woman who tracks her baby's _______________ with the help of a chart.
(a) Movements
(b) Words
(c) Growth
(d) Bowel movements

2. _____________ has to support her husband and an elderly relative on 30 to 50 dollars each week.
(a) Pauline
(b) Margerie
(c) Holly
(d) Rosalie

3. The thing Barbara hates to clean most of all is _________ in the bathrooms of their customers.
(a) Tubs
(b) Feces
(c) Sinks
(d) Urine

4. What does one company want her to sell, promising her $1650 for doing 54 two hour appointments?
(a) Vacuum cleaner
(b) Air purifier
(c) Vitamins
(d) Clothing

5. Nobody seems to make eye contact, Barbara notes, when she applies at _____________, which strikes her as weird.
(a) Wal-Mart
(b) Goodwill
(c) Salvation Army
(d) Meijer

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Marge and Holly talk about how low wage ____________ even look down on maids when they are out.

3. Despite the miraculous vacuum cleaner, Lori and Pauline's __________ are ruined and wrecked.

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

5. The Maids say the work they do will be easy because cleaning is in our __________, notes Barbara.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the prissy women at the first Maids job Barbara is on do for her baby?

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

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

4. What does the author do on a night when she has nothing to do and no money to spend on entertainment?

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

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

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

8. What does the author admit to doing which is making her a little nervous about the drug test she needs to take?

9. What is the rate of pay that the Merry Maids claims to offer to those who work for them?

10. What does Barbara do as the focus of her job at Wal-Mart, as it becomes clearer on the first shift?

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