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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. When did English writer Daniel Defoe publish a pamphlet arguing that the poor would not work for wages if they were given alms?
(a) 1711.
(b) 1728.
(c) 1704.
(d) 1706.

2. According to studies, what percent of the taxes they owed did the ultra-rich pay?
(a) 90%.
(b) 85%.
(c) 65%.
(d) 75%.

3. In what state did nearly everyone eligible for food stamps enroll?
(a) Montana.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Washington.

4. When did Congress pass federal legislation abolishing housing discrimination?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1961.

5. When the General Social Survey was conducted in 1990, what percent of Americans believed Black Americans were lazy?
(a) 22 percent.
(b) 44 percent.
(c) 58 percent.
(d) 37 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. For four months during the COVID pandemic, how much did unemployed Americans received on top of their regular stipend weekly?

2. When did President Obama propose to do away with tax benefits to 529 college savings plans?

3. In what state did about a third of those qualified for food stamps not use them?

4. How much money in overdraft fees subsidizes the free checking accounts many have at Bank of America or Wells Fargo?

5. Since 1985, by what percent did rent prices exceed income gains?

Short Essay Questions

1. What challenges did Blacks face with banking?

2. How did Japan, Great Britain, Estonia, the Netherlands, and some other countries handle tax filing?

3. What did statistics show about the tax rate for all Americans?

4. In some parts of America, what did a pricey mortgage purchased?

5. Why did Desmond believe that deeper antipoverty investments were not required?

6. How much did Desmond think it would take to end poverty, and how did he believe we could get the money?

7. Why did Desmond write that middle-class families were not carrying the poor on their backs?

8. What challenges faced individuals who had bad credit or no credit score?

9. How and why did poverty rates fall during the COVID pandemic?

10. In what way were individuals considered to be above the poverty line dependent upon the government?

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