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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trees were around the house where Desmond grew up?
(a) Mexican Pinyon.
(b) Texas Redbud.
(c) Velvet Mesquite.
(d) Russian olive.

2. In 2022, how many young children lived in poverty or hovered at the edge of poverty?
(a) 26 million.
(b) 18 million.
(c) 22 million.
(d) 30 million.

3. Where did Desmond go to graduate school?
(a) University of Wisconsin.
(b) University of Illinois.
(c) University of Colorado.
(d) University of Michigan.

4. When Desmond wrote Poverty, by America, how many school children were homeless?
(a) More than a million.
(b) 250,000.
(c) About 500,000.
(d) 2 million.

5. How long ago were only the rich able to afford cell phones?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 35 years.
(d) 40 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Julio Payes when he collapsed from exhaustion in the aisle of a grocery store?

2. In Arizona, Connecticut, and Kentucky, how much were inmates charged to call out on the prison phone per 15 minute call?

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

4. How old was a warehouse worker who had to give up two of his children to keep one?

5. What was the minimum wage in 1946?

(see the answer key)

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