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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During Ronald Reagan's presidency, by what percent did the aid reserved for American who fell below a certain income level increase?
(a) 50.
(b) 110.
(c) 90
(d) 237.

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

3. How long ago were only the rich able to afford cell phones?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 40 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 35 years.

4. Who wrote that the history of the world was "who gets eaten and who gets to eat" (42)?
(a) Luciano Berio.
(b) Stephen Sondheim.
(c) Maurice Ravel.
(d) George Gershwin.

5. When Crystal got an apartment, what percent of her income did rent take?
(a) 86.
(b) 91.
(c) 69.
(d) 73.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many premature deaths did a study find could have been prevented in New York City from 2008 to 2012 if the city's minimum wage had been $15 an hour?

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

3. What author is quoted in the epigraph?

4. In 2022, where was the poverty line drawn for a family of four?

5. When was Crystal Mayberry born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mississippi use TANF funds?

2. What happened when poor workers received a pay raise?

3. Why are there millions more Americans in poverty than official statistics reveal?

4. Why did Desmond believe poverty was physical pain?

5. What is the Official Poverty Measure?

6. Where did Desmond grow up?

7. What were Julio Payes's days like and why?

8. Why did some of the government aid for the poor never reach them?

9. How were employees tracked on the job, and how did that affect workers?

10. Why was Crystal Mayberry born prematurely?

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