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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many premature deaths did a study find could have been prevented in New York City from 2008 to 2012 if the city's minimum wage had been $15 an hour?
(a) 6,900.
(b) 5,500.
(c) 3,600.
(d) 4,800.

2. When did Leo Tolstoy move to Moscow?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1879.

3. When did sector-by-sector collective bargaining establish a country wide minimum monthly wage in Austria?
(a) 2018.
(b) 2020.
(c) 2019.
(d) 2017.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2019, what was the percent of the U.S. population that was poor?

2. In the 1950s and 1960s, how many U.S. workers carried union cards?

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

4. What was the closest large city to where Desmond grew up?

5. What state was leading the way on inclusionary zoning in the U.S.?

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