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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the time Crystal aged out of foster care, how many foster placements had she had?
(a) 22.
(b) More than 25.
(c) About 30.
(d) 18.

2. How long did the 1965 Delano grape strike and boycott last?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 27 months.
(d) 3 years.

3. For four months during the COVID pandemic, how much did unemployed Americans received on top of their regular stipend weekly?
(a) $600.
(b) $400.
(c) $300.
(d) $500.

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?
(a) 30 percent.
(b) 35 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 20 percent.

5. What author is quoted in the epigraph?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Pushkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1959, what percent of poor families were composed of a married couple?

2. When Walmart announced raising the hourly wage to $15 in 2021, by what percent did their stock fall?

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

4. 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?

5. In 2020, how much money did the mortgage interest deducation allow more than 13 million Americans to keep?

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