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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. In 2018, on what amount were 5.3 million Americans subsisting daily?
(a) $3.
(b) $6.
(c) $5.
(d) $4.

2. When did air traffic controllers strike when negotiations with the Federal Aviation Administration broke down?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1976.

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

4. When Walmart announced raising the hourly wage to $15 in 2021, by what percent did their stock fall?
(a) 3 percent.
(b) 2 percent.
(c) 6 percent.
(d) 8 percent.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. At the time Poverty, by America was written, how many cents on the dollar did Black workers make compared to the average white worker?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Mississippi use TANF funds?

4. Had poverty gotten worse because spending was reduced?

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

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

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

8. What is the Official Poverty Measure?

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

10. Why was Crystal Mayberry born prematurely?

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