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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. What college did Desmond attend?
(a) New Mexico State University.
(b) University of New Mexico.
(c) Arizona State University.
(d) University of Arizona.

2. What did the house cost that Desmond grew up in?
(a) $35,000.
(b) $75,000.
(c) $50,000.
(d) $60,000.

3. At how many universities had Desmond taught on inequality?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

4. Where did Desmond go to graduate school?
(a) University of Colorado.
(b) University of Wisconsin.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) University of Illinois.

5. How many undocumented workers were paid below minimum wage at the time Poverty, by America was written?
(a) More than 1/3.
(b) About 1/2.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 2/3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the average American city between 2000 and 2022, by what percent had fuel and utilities increased?

3. What church did Desmond's father pastor?

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

5. In a survey of men and women released from prison in Massachusetts, what percent had witnessed a murder as children?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mississippi use TANF funds?

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

3. Where did Desmond grow up?

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

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

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

7. What is the Official Poverty Measure?

8. How did many welfare policies have an antifamily design?

9. What was the relationship between corporate profits and labor costs?

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

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