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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did President Obama propose to do away with tax benefits to 529 college savings plans?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2015.

2. What percent of the GDP is the amount needed to end poverty in America?
(a) 27.
(b) 18.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

3. At how many universities had Desmond taught on inequality?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

4. When the Affordable Care Act was implemented, how much did working-class families have to for coverage?
(a) $750.
(b) $900
(c) Upward of $1,000.
(d) About $1,200.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Desmond wrote Poverty, by America, how many school children were homeless?

2. At the time Poverty, by America was written how many poor families were headed by a single mother?

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

4. When was their a financial crisis in the 19th century that caused landlords to subdivide properties to make room for more renters?

5. In what state did about a third of those qualified for food stamps not use them?

(see the answer key)

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