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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much less did workers with a high school diploma make in 2017 than they made in 1979, adjusted for inflation?
(a) 5.8 percent.
(b) 4.1 percent.
(c) 2.7 percent.
(d) 3.6 percent.

2. By July 2022, what was the minimum wage in Emeryvill?
(a) $18.39.
(b) $15.
(c) $16.
(d) $17.68.

3. Who wrote that the history of the world was "who gets eaten and who gets to eat" (42)?
(a) Luciano Berio.
(b) Stephen Sondheim.
(c) George Gershwin.
(d) Maurice Ravel.

4. Growing up in a severely disadvantaged neighborhood was equivalent to missing how much school?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) A year.
(d) 18 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were some countries where the government automatically filed taxes, sent a form to citizens, citizens checked the form, and mailed it back in?

2. In 2021, how many rental units in Syracuse, New York, sat empty even as rent increased by 8%?

3. How many newly built English homes would fit into the average new American home?

4. What was the difference between the amount Lakia Higbee paid for rent and what she would have paid for mortgage if she could have gotten one?

5. At the time Poverty, by America was written how many poor families were headed by a single mother?

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