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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Near what town did Desmond grow up?
(a) Winslow.
(b) Holbrook.
(c) Doney Park.
(d) Blue Ridge.

2. When did Milwaukee implement the New Hope program?
(a) 1991.
(b) Late 1980s.
(c) 1984.
(d) Mid-1990s.

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

4. In 2020, how much money did the mortgage interest deducation allow more than 13 million Americans to keep?
(a) $24.7 billion.
(b) $17.9 billion.
(c) $5.6 billion.
(d) $38.1 billion.

5. How many undocumented workers were paid below minimum wage at the time Poverty, by America was written?
(a) More than 1/3.
(b) 2/3.
(c) About 1/2.
(d) 1/4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote that the history of the world was "who gets eaten and who gets to eat" (42)?

2. During Ronald Reagan's presidency, by what percent did the aid reserved for American who fell below a certain income level increase?

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

4. How long ago were only the rich able to afford cell phones?

5. Where did Desmond go to graduate school?

(see the answer key)

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