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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the tiny busy woman who teaches Barbara the rules of the next job she takes on at the hotel adjacent to the restaurant?

2. What is the 'dream job' that Barbara lands in addition to her restaurant job, taking on both when in Florida?

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

4. What is the name Barbara uses for the family restaurant where she chooses to work first in Florida?

5. The manager, ________, yells at Barbara for a confused breakfast and a yuppie customer complains too.

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of job does Barbara say that she will take, money-wise, at least at the start of the experiment?

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

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

4. What is the one thing that Barbara says she will not mention as she is applying and working during this experiment?

5. What are some of the other reasons why Barbara doesn't really want to take on the assignment of working for minimum wage?

6. What is surprising to Barbara about the many places to which she has applied for a job?

7. Why do people end up living with others or in conditions they don't want to live in, according to Barbara?

8. Why does Barbara want to take on the assignment she actually suggested be done?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The working conditions in which you work might change you, according to Barbara.

Part 1: Why might the working conditions in which you are placed change the person you are?

Part 2: How do companies attempt to reshape and to mold the employees they have hired?

Part 3: What do you think happens when some people refuse to change for the job in which they have been hired? Why?

Essay Topic 2

The minimum wage workers are kept down and continue to be kept down in modern times. With this idea in mind, it seems that maybe there is a reason for the poverty level to exist.

Part 1: Why might there be a need for poverty level workers in the world?

Part 2: What might happen if the poverty level workers were not around to fill the positions they are in?

Part 3: Do you think it's realistic to have a goal of removing poverty and minimum wage workers completely? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

When Barbara goes back and tells her coworkers what she was doing and who she is, the coworkers don't seem to have a reaction.

Part 1: Why do you think Barbara's coworkers didn't really notice Barbara as anyone different or special?

Part 2: Why do you think Barbara expected to be seen as different in some way?

Part 3: Were you surprised that the other coworkers didn't have a bigger reaction? Why or why not?

(see the answer keys)

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