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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what rate were the 400 richest Americans taxed?
(a) 23%.
(b) 19%.
(c) 36%.
(d) 44%.

2. What magazine featured a cover story that had a photo of a gold-plated manhole cover?
(a) Time.
(b) National Review.
(c) New York Times Magazine.
(d) The Atlantic.

3. In 2020, what was the maximum amount one could receive if they claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit?
(a) $5,920.
(b) $7,539.
(c) $6,030.
(d) $4,790.

4. In the past 50 years, by what percent had infant mortality rates and deaths from heart disease fallen?
(a) 60.
(b) 85.
(c) 55.
(d) 70.

5. How much in market value did Walmart lose when it announced in 2015 that it planned to increase its starting wage to at least $9 an hour?
(a) $20 billion.
(b) $3.5 billion.
(c) $5 billion.
(d) $15 billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. By July 2022, what was the minimum wage in Emeryvill?

2. How old was Tolstoy when he moved to Moscow?

3. In studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, within what amount of time did young mothers on welfare quit relying on it?

4. When tenements began appearing in new York City in the mid-1800s, how much higher was the rent in the slums than that of better apartments uptown?

5. Who wrote that the history of the world was "who gets eaten and who gets to eat" (42)?

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