1. How many of the families who qualified for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applied for it?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 2/3.

2. In the average American city between 2000 and 2022, by what percent had fuel and utilities increased?
(a) 75.
(b) 115.
(c) 90.
(d) 45.

3. What church did Desmond's father pastor?
(a) First Baptist Church.
(b) Church of Christ.
(c) First Christian Church.
(d) First United Methodist.

4. When did unions like the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America exclude Black workers?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1940s.

5. How likely are Black and Hispanic American to be poor compared to white Americans?
(a) Three times.
(b) Four times.
(c) Two times.
(d) Five times.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Kansas senator Roger Marshall declare that the main "impediment" (85) to his state's sagging labor market was unemployment insurance paying people not to work?

2. What college did Desmond attend?

3. When Crystal was diagnosed with mental illness, how much SSI did she receive monthly?

4. When did English writer Daniel Defoe publish a pamphlet arguing that the poor would not work for wages if they were given alms?

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

(see the answer key)

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