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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 president once siad, "Taxes should hurt" (97)?
(a) Clinton.
(b) Reagan.
(c) Ford.
(d) Carter.

2. In 2019, what was the percent of the U.S. population that was poor?
(a) 18.6.
(b) 10.5.
(c) 15.9.
(d) 13.3.

3. Who was the author of the Official Poverty Measure?
(a) Martin Weale.
(b) D. Nathan Sheets.
(c) Mollie Orshansky.
(d) Diane Coyle.

4. In studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, within what amount of time did young mothers on welfare quit relying on it?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 1/2 years.
(c) 1 1/2 years.
(d) 5 years.

5. When the General Social Survey was conducted in 1990, what percent of Americans believed Black Americans were lazy?
(a) 22 percent.
(b) 37 percent.
(c) 44 percent.
(d) 58 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What annual income would the average payday loan customer have?

2. Between February and April 2020, how did the unemployment rate rise?

3. In 2018, how much more did the average middle-class family receive in government aid than it paid in federal taxes?

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

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

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