View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the value of PayPal founder Peter Thiel's Roth IRA?
(a) $550 million.
(b) $5 billion.
(c) $3 billion.
(d) $900 million.

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

3. Since 1985, by what percent did rent prices exceed income gains?
(a) 325%.
(b) 280%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 115%.

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

5. When did Roman historian, Sallust, document the problem of a large quantity of poor people living alongside millions of rich people?
(a) 78 B.C.E.
(b) 63 B.C.E.
(c) 58 B.C.E.
(d) 38 B.C.E.

Short Answer Questions

1. Using what font on mailers helped increase the number of individuals who signed up for the Earned Income Credit?

2. What percent of the GDP is the amount needed to end poverty in America?

3. To what circle of hell did Dante send moneylenders?

4. When did Milwaukee implement the New Hope program?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 182 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample