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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote that the history of the world was "who gets eaten and who gets to eat" (42)?

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

3. In 2020, how much money did states have in their possession of unspent welfare funds?

4. When Crystal was diagnosed with mental illness, how much SSI did she receive monthly?

5. At the time Poverty, by America was written, how many people were immigrants?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did poverty affect Desmond's former roommate Woo?

3. Had poverty gotten worse because spending was reduced?

4. How did Mississippi use TANF funds?

5. Why did it seem unimaginable that the U.S. had made so little progress in poverty reduction?

6. Why are there millions more Americans in poverty than official statistics reveal?

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

8. Why did some of the government aid for the poor never reach them?

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

10. When Desmond went to college, how was his life different from the lives of many of his classmates?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Poverty often required individuals to struggle for their basic needs. What is poverty, and how did it affect day-to-day life for those who lived below the poverty line?

Essay Topic 2

In 1982, George Stigler received the Nobel Prize for his contributions to studies indicating that raising wages would increase unemployment. When were Stigler’s theories tested? What did studies show about the effect of raising wages and how unemployment was affected?

Essay Topic 3

President Bill Clinton reformed welfare in 1996. How was welfare reformed in 1996, and how did the reforms affect poverty?

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