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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the minimum wage in 1946?
(a) 50 cents.
(b) 45 cents.
(c) 40 cents.
(d) 35 cents.

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

3. At the time Poverty, by America was written, how many cents on the dollar did Black workers make compared to the average white worker?
(a) 74.
(b) 59.
(c) 63.
(d) 87.

4. What percent of the U.S. population was poor in 1970?
(a) 11.8.
(b) 10.5.
(c) 13.9.
(d) 12.6.

5. How old was Julio Payes when he collapsed from exhaustion in the aisle of a grocery store?
(a) 23.
(b) 24.
(c) 25.
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did air traffic controllers strike when negotiations with the Federal Aviation Administration broke down?

3. How much in market value did Walmart lose when it announced in 2015 that it planned to increase its starting wage to at least $9 an hour?

4. In 2021, how much did the U.S. spend on tax breaks?

5. How much less did workers with a high school diploma make in 2017 than they made in 1979, adjusted for inflation?

(see the answer key)

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