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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2022, how much did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent to influence government policy?
(a) $35 million.
(b) $40 million.
(c) $25 million.
(d) $20 million.

2. 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) $15 billion.
(b) $5 billion.
(c) $3.5 billion.
(d) $20 billion.

3. When did Congress pass federal legislation abolishing housing discrimination?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1968.

4. In 2016, how many lobbyists did Uber have working in 44 states?
(a) 280.
(b) 370.
(c) 110.
(d) 55.

5. In 1959, what percent of poor families were composed of a married couple?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) Not quite 80 percent.
(c) 85 percent.
(d) About 70 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between February and April 2020, how did the unemployment rate rise?

2. Every year between overdraft fees, check cashing fees, and payday loan fees, how much in fees were collected from low-income Americans?

3. When Blacks moved north during the Great Migration, how much more did they often have to pay than white tenants paid?

4. In the past 50 years, by what percent had infant mortality rates and deaths from heart disease fallen?

5. When the General Social Survey was conducted in 1990, what percent of Americans believed Black Americans were lazy?

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