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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) 45 cents.
(b) 50 cents.
(c) 40 cents.
(d) 35 cents.

2. What did the house cost that Desmond grew up in?
(a) $60,000.
(b) $35,000.
(c) $75,000.
(d) $50,000.

3. What were some countries where the government automatically filed taxes, sent a form to citizens, citizens checked the form, and mailed it back in?
(a) Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.
(b) Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and Nigeria.
(c) Japan, Great Britain, Estonia, and the Netherlands.
(d) Japan, Germany, France, and Poland.

4. How much in government benefits did the average household in the top 20% receive yearly compared to the $25,733 those in the bottom 20% of the income distribution received?
(a) About $35,363.
(b) $43,200.
(c) $31,800.
(d) Not quite $38,500.

5. In 2022, how much did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent to influence government policy?
(a) $35 million.
(b) $25 million.
(c) $20 million.
(d) $40 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, within what amount of time did young mothers on welfare quit relying on it?

2. In 2022, how many young children lived in poverty or hovered at the edge of poverty?

3. What was the deep poverty line in 2020 for a family of four?

4. When did English writer Daniel Defoe publish a pamphlet arguing that the poor would not work for wages if they were given alms?

5. At the time America, By Poverty was written, how many eviction filings were created on average yearly?

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