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Manush’s story shows the importance of using powerful keywords to his resume in landing the job he wanted.

Test 2

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  pension plans.
B  on-site child care.
C  paid family leave for six months.
D  retirement counseling.
E  unpaid family leave for up to twelve weeks.
Question #2
A  occupational guidance.
B  lateral mobility.
C  pragmatic job counseling.
D  occupational steering.
E  early job socialization.
Question #3
A  it is repetitive.
B  it requires more manual dexterity than many workers possess.
C  it is poorly paid.
D  the tasks are too difficult.
E  new technologies have created too many stressful intellectual demands.
Question #4
A  boredom
B  powerlessness
C  alienation
D  self-estrangement
E  revolution
Question #5
A  the difference between the average earnings of new workers and experienced workers.
B  the difference between increasing family expenses across the life cycle and relatively stable earnings.
C  the difference between the average earnings of husbands and wives.
D  the difference between the average earnings of adult children and their parents.
E  the difference between the income of workers and the needs of their aged parents.
Question #6
A  forbidding workers to talk with their co-workers
B  installing a hot-line for anonymous complaints about safety concerns
C  requiring that all promotion possibilities be posted for three weeks before the job is filled
D  requiring workers to eat only in the company cafeteria
E  requiring workers to keep track of their expenses while traveling on company business
Question #7
A  buying groceries.
B  washing laundry.
C  preparing meals.
D  writing freelance articles for publication.
E  taking children to sports lessons.
Question #8
A  mass strikes.
B  secondary boycotts.
C  gridlock strikes.
D  general strikes.
E  sit-down strikes.
Question #9
A  the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
B  Brown v. Board of Education.
C  Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
D  the Executive Order of 1962.
E  the bill of rights.
Question #10
A  family members employed by the same company would be fired.
B  they were considered to be easily replaceable.
C  their wage was too cheap to stop working.
D  they were not unionized yet.
E  strikes were illegal.
Question #11
A  It was a general union.
B  The Knights favored social and political reform.
C  It was basically a self-improvement and social reform society.
D  The Knights officially opposed strikes.
E  Like many early unions, it excluded working women.
Question #12
A  only alienation has an effect outside the workplace.
B  technology mediates the effects of alienation and self-actualization upon workers’ families.
C  only self-actualization has an effect outside the workplace.
D  alcohol, drug abuse, and family problems have no connection with workers’ job experiences.
E  both self-actualization and alienation may have an effect outside the workplace.
Question #13
A  on-site child care, relocation counseling, and flextime
B  maternal leave, health care, and education benefits
C  elder care, a defined benefit plan, and health care
D  job sharing, paid leave, and elder care
E  retirement counseling, defined contribution plans, and health care
Question #14
A  Karl Marx
B  William Julius Wilson
C  Barbara Reskin
D  Max Weber
E  Charles Tilly
Question #15
A  Job satisfaction increases as division of labor increases.
B  Workers in very small companies report low job satisfaction due to limited job complexity.
C  Workers prefer small companies to large corporations.
D  Opportunities for promotion appear to be unrelated to job satisfaction.
E  The nature of the job tasks is unrelated to job satisfaction.
Question #16
A  to convince workers that their problems are shared by others.
B  as an ineffective organizing tool.
C  to persuade employers to recognize unions.
D  as an illegal labor practice.
E  to persuade political parties to support unions.
Question #17
A  job rotation, close supervision, and flexibility
B  job flexibility and diversity
C  job security, job rotation, and training
D  job autonomy, complexity, and diversity
E  job complexity and security
Question #18
A  part-time workers.
B  divorced women.
C  the children of immigrants.
D  unskilled workers.
E  the underclass.
Question #19
A  dissatisfaction, powerlessness, anger, self-estrangement, isolation
B  anger, self-estrangement, meaninglessness, isolation, normlessness
C  powerlessness, self-estrangement, meaninglessness, isolation, normlessness
D  dissatisfaction, powerlessness, meaninglessness, isolation, normlessness
E  dissatisfaction, meaninglessness, powerlessness, isolation, anger, normlessness, self-estrangement
Question #20
A  craft and machine tending.
B  fringe benefits
C  job security
D  positive relations with co-workers
E  pay
Question #21
A  learning to distinguish different colors.
B  learning how to use a pencil properly.
C  learning to raise one’s hand before speaking.
D  learning the letters of the alphabet.
E  learning to count to one hundred.