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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what state did nearly everyone eligible for food stamps enroll?
(a) Washington.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Montana.

2. Using what font on mailers helped increase the number of individuals who signed up for the Earned Income Credit?
(a) Georgia font.
(b) Roboto font.
(c) Verdana font.
(d) Frutiger font.

3. Which states had the fastest job growth during June and July 2021?
(a) Alaska, Hawaii, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
(b) Colorado, California, Indiana, New York state, and Connecticut.
(c) Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota.
(d) Tennessee, West Virginia, Missouri, and Louisiana.

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

5. In 2020, how much did Americans spend on their pets?
(a) About $80 billion.
(b) Over $100 billion.
(c) $105 million.
(d) $50 million.

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

7. Every year between overdraft fees, check cashing fees, and payday loan fees, how much in fees were collected from low-income Americans?
(a) Over $11 billion.
(b) $50 million.
(c) $900 million.
(d) About $9 billion.

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

9. How old was Tolstoy when he moved to Moscow?
(a) 49.
(b) 53.
(c) 43.
(d) 56.

10. Between February and April 2020, how did the unemployment rate rise?
(a) It rose by 55 percent.
(b) It quadrupled.
(c) It rose by 75 percent.
(d) It doubled.

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

12. How many residents in Stockton, California, were given $500 a month with no strings attached?
(a) 218.
(b) 75.
(c) 230.
(d) 125.

13. In 2018, how much more did the average middle-class family receive in government aid than it paid in federal taxes?
(a) $5,800.
(b) $6,500.
(c) $8,300.
(d) $7.100.

14. To what circle of hell did Dante send moneylenders?
(a) 4th.
(b) 7th.
(c) 3rd.
(d) 9th.

15. At the time Poverty, by America was written, how much money did the U.S. lose yearly due to tax avoidance?
(a) About $20 billion.
(b) More than $1 trillion.
(c) $900 million.
(d) $3 trillion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the families who qualified for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families applied for it?

2. When the General Social Survey was conducted in 1990, what percent of Americans believed Black Americans were lazy?

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

4. When did Kansas senator Roger Marshall declare that the main "impediment" (85) to his state's sagging labor market was unemployment insurance paying people not to work?

5. What president once siad, "Taxes should hurt" (97)?

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