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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Poverty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money do state and federal governments spend for poor adults and their children each year?
(a) $300 million.
(b) $20 billion.
(c) $900 million.
(d) $4 billion.

2. Solomon sites a study on what animal that showed the animal went psychotic without their mothers?
(a) Dolphins.
(b) Rats.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Dogs.

3. What are the most popular type of antidepressants?
(a) SSRIs.
(b) Atypical.
(c) Tricycles.
(d) MAOIs.

4. Which drugs can help fight anxiety?
(a) Opiates.
(b) Depressants.
(c) Hallucinogens.
(d) Benzos.

5. What drug can do permanent damage to dopamine systems and can make depression worse?
(a) Valium.
(b) LSD.
(c) Heroine.
(d) Cocaine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What field does Lolly find a job in?

2. What are the most common addictive substances?

3. What kind of drug is Demerol?

4. What percent of people in the U.S. suffering from serious mental illness are unemployed?

5. How many of the impoverished, depressed men that Solomon interviewed were HIV positive?

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