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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Julio Payes when he collapsed from exhaustion in the aisle of a grocery store?
(a) 23.
(b) 25.
(c) 22.
(d) 24.

2. When did John Kenneth Galbraith write his book, The Affluent Society?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1958.

3. When did air traffic controllers strike when negotiations with the Federal Aviation Administration broke down?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1976.

4. What author is quoted in the epigraph?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Tolstoy.

5. Of the approximately 750,000 workers around the world who made and sell Apple products when Desmond wrote the book, how many worked directly for Apple?
(a) 530,000.
(b) 42,000.
(c) 63,000.
(d) 115,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2020, how many Food Lion workers in North Carolina drew food stamps?

2. Where did Desmond go to graduate school?

3. When Crystal could no longer live with her mother, how long did she live with an aunt?

4. When awareness was raised and red tape and hassle cut, by what rate did the elderly enroll in food stamps?

5. In 2018, on what amount were 5.3 million Americans subsisting daily?

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