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

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

3. At the time Poverty, by America was written, how many cents on the dollar did Black workers make compared to the average white worker?
(a) 74.
(b) 59.
(c) 63.
(d) 87.

4. What was the deep poverty line in 2020 for a family of four?
(a) $14,200.
(b) $12,700.
(c) $15,800.
(d) $13,100.

5. 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) Not quite $38,500.
(b) About $35,363.
(c) $31,800.
(d) $43,200.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country cut payroll taxes for low-income workers?

2. What was the difference between the amount Lakia Higbee paid for rent and what she would have paid for mortgage if she could have gotten one?

3. When Desmond was in graduate school, where did he live?

4. Growing up in a severely disadvantaged neighborhood was equivalent to missing how much school?

5. In the 1950s and 1960s, how many U.S. workers carried union cards?

(see the answer key)

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