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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. Growing up in a severely disadvantaged neighborhood was equivalent to missing how much school?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) A year.

2. In a 2021 study of 100 cities, what percent of apartment dwellers were allowed to live on residential land?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 26.
(d) 32.

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) Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and Nigeria.
(c) Japan, Germany, France, and Poland.
(d) Japan, Great Britain, Estonia, and the Netherlands.

4. To what circle of hell did Dante send moneylenders?
(a) 3rd.
(b) 4th.
(c) 9th.
(d) 7th.

5. When did President Obama propose to do away with tax benefits to 529 college savings plans?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2010.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to studies, what percent of the taxes they owed did the ultra-rich pay?

2. In 2021, how many rental units in Syracuse, New York, sat empty even as rent increased by 8%?

3. By what percent had median rent increased since 2000 in the West?

4. What was the top maginal tax rate in 1975?

5. How much did President Reagan reduce funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 6, what examples did Desmond provide to show how rich Americans were at the time the book was written?

2. What challenges did Blacks face with banking?

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

4. How did corporations avoid paying the taxes they owed?

5. What were some excuses for the rising housing costs, and what did Desmond believe caused the rising housing costs?

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

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

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

9. What did Leo Tolstoy believe caused the horrible poverty he saw in Moscow?

10. How did many white families respond to court-ordered desegration?

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