They do not take advantage of the offers because the offers will not help them. At this point in their lives they are not self-motivated enough to lift themselves out of poverty. A stranger giving them a free ride would not help teach them how to be self-sufficient. Shepard states "They they needed repetition to get out."
2)Why was Shepard so surprised that one of the homeless men was selling crack?
Shepard is completely surprised by the fact that one of the homeless men was selling crack during one of the smoke breaks at Crisis Ministries. He says he was "...remorseful and angry and, for some reason, guilty..."Shepard's life before this experiment was so far removed from drugs that he did not fully realize that there would be drugs at the homeless shelter until he actually saw them.
3)Why does Shepard include the paragraph about his smell at the end of the section about the mass baptism?
He probably includes this paragraph to make the point that he does not do such artificial things like pretending to get in on the baptism just to rinse off in the water. This could be foreshadowing to a future event in the book where he does something artificial and it causes problems for him. He also may have put this paragraph in because his smell was something that he was overly concerned with at this point in the story.
4)Why does Shepard say that the availability of jobs is irrelevant to him?
By saying this Shepard is saying that the current state of the job market or the economy is not his concern. He is saying that he is not in a position to take time to worry about those things. The only thing he has time for is finding a job and making money because he is so deep in poverty now.
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