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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Facebook log its $15 billion in profit?
(a) Caribbean.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Bahamas.
(d) Bermuda.

2. What companies that made beer were unionized?
(a) Miller and Rolling Rock.
(b) Heineken and Beck's.
(c) Budweiser and Anheuser-Busch.
(d) Coors and Pabst.

3. Between 2014 and 2017, when a program was launched in Delaware to ensure women of child-bearing age received birth control, by what percent was the decline in unintended pregnancies among low-income and uninsured women?
(a) 15.
(b) Not quite 30.
(c) About 24.
(d) 38.

4. When did Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, join three other workers in a shopping mall in western Michigan to collect signatures supporting a higher minimum wage?
(a) April 2022.
(b) June 2022.
(c) May 2022.
(d) March 2022.

5. How old was a warehouse worker who had to give up two of his children to keep one?
(a) 55.
(b) 49.
(c) 50.
(d) 47.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the top maginal tax rate in 1975?

2. After John F. Kennedy was assassinated, when did Democrats have majorities in both houses of Congress?

3. During Ronald Reagan's presidency, by what percent did the aid reserved for American who fell below a certain income level increase?

4. In 2020, how many workers earned at or below the federal minimum wage?

5. At the time Poverty, by America was written, how many cents on the dollar did Black workers make compared to the average white worker?

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