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

2. Where did Desmond present a paper titled "Exploiting the Inner City" (43)?
(a) Harvard's Kennedy School of Business.
(b) Wharton School.
(c) The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
(d) The Booth School of Business.

3. When Desmond wrote Poverty, by America, how many school children were homeless?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 2 million.
(c) More than a million.
(d) About 500,000.

4. What was the minimum wage in 1946?
(a) 50 cents.
(b) 45 cents.
(c) 40 cents.
(d) 35 cents.

5. In the 1950s and 1960s, how many U.S. workers carried union cards?
(a) 1/4.
(b) About 1/2.
(c) Nearly 1/3.
(d) 2/3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the median income for a Black household in 2019?

3. In 2020, how many people were killed in Chicago by gun violence?

4. How old was Julio Payes when he collapsed from exhaustion in the aisle of a grocery store?

5. In 2022, how much did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent to influence government policy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does race affect who lives in poverty and who does not?

3. What is the Official Poverty Measure?

4. Why and how did Desmond and his family learn to fix things themselves?

5. How did Mississippi use TANF funds?

6. What was Crystal Mayberry's life like and why did she become homeless?

7. Why did Desmond believe poverty was physical pain?

8. What were some statistics that revealed how bad poverty was in America?

9. Why did many people applying for Supplement Security Income (SSI) hire a lawyer?

10. Why did Desmond write Poverty, By America?

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