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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 magazine featured a cover story that had a photo of a gold-plated manhole cover?
(a) New York Times Magazine.
(b) The Atlantic.
(c) National Review.
(d) Time.

2. How many residents in Stockton, California, were given $500 a month with no strings attached?
(a) 230.
(b) 218.
(c) 125.
(d) 75.

3. What were some countries where the government automatically filed taxes, sent a form to citizens, citizens checked the form, and mailed it back in?
(a) Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.
(b) Japan, Great Britain, Estonia, and the Netherlands.
(c) Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and Nigeria.
(d) Japan, Germany, France, and Poland.

4. How many fewer Americans were in poverty in 2021 than in 2018?
(a) 5 million.
(b) Approximately 10 million.
(c) Roughly 16 million.
(d) 18 million.

5. What president once siad, "Taxes should hurt" (97)?
(a) Carter.
(b) Clinton.
(c) Ford.
(d) Reagan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What annual income would the average payday loan customer have?

2. In studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, within what amount of time did young mothers on welfare quit relying on it?

3. When tenements began appearing in new York City in the mid-1800s, how much higher was the rent in the slums than that of better apartments uptown?

4. Between February and April 2020, how did the unemployment rate rise?

5. In the book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, what percent of adult Americans did the author report had relied on a major government program at some time in their lives?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What were some laws that served as walls to keep out the poor?

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

5. How did rent increase from 2000 to 2021?

6. How would a mortgage have benefitted Lakia Higbee and why did she rent?

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

8. What were arguments about the negative effects of government support for the poor based upon?

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

10. What did English doctor and clergyman Joseph Townsend have to say about getting poor people to work?

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