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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. 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?
(a) 3,600.
(b) 6,900.
(c) 4,800.
(d) 5,500.

2. Where did Desmond meet home health aides who belonged to the full-time working homeless?
(a) Illinois.
(b) New York.
(c) Indiana.
(d) New Jersey.

3. How much less did workers with a high school diploma make in 2017 than they made in 1979, adjusted for inflation?
(a) 3.6 percent.
(b) 4.1 percent.
(c) 5.8 percent.
(d) 2.7 percent.

4. What summer job did Desmond have when he was in college?
(a) Wildland firefighter.
(b) Waiter.
(c) Janitor.
(d) Ranch hand.

5. 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) 237.
(c) 90
(d) 110.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time Poverty, by America was written, how many people were immigrants?

2. How likely are Black and Hispanic American to be poor compared to white Americans?

3. In 2018, on what amount were 5.3 million Americans subsisting daily?

4. When Poverty, by America was written, how many American workers belonged to a union?

5. What was the closest large city to where Desmond grew up?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are independent contractors and how did they affect wages and benefits?

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

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

5. Why was Crystal Mayberry born prematurely?

6. Why did Desmond write Poverty, By America?

7. Why did Desmond believe poverty was physical pain?

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

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

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

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