Question 1

Why was the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 significant?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was the only law that dealt with children.
B)  It represented a compilation and refinement of all the antipoverty legislation of the previous 250 years.
C)  It represented a compilation of all the antipoverty legislation and added an equal wage law.
D)  It was the first piece of legislation Queen Elizabeth signed into law. B

Question 2

The Elizabethan Poor Law included all but which of the following provisions?

Accepted Answer

A)  People were responsible for their children and parents up to 3 generations.
B)  The unemployed were put to work.
C)  Vagrants could be executed.
D)  Children were kept in school. D

Question 3

The very first type of social insurance passed was:

Accepted Answer

A)  Mothers' Pension Law.
B)  Workmen's Compensation.
C)  old age pensions.
D)  pensions for the blind. C

Question 4

What happened during the 14th century in England that devastated the country on a wide scale?

Accepted Answer

A)  Owners of farms and businesses decided they weren't going to hire workers
B)  the King declared war
C)  various calamities including famine,crop failures and the bubonic plague
D)  None of the above

Question 5

What was the most important factor concerning the feudal system?

Accepted Answer

A)  It provided basic needs.
B)  It make the people rich.
C)  It separated the poor from the rich.
D)  It made the poor and rich equal.

Question 6

"Workingman's Insurance" was a reflection of increasing urbanization because:

Accepted Answer

A)  people in the city had no garden.
B)  people in the city had less reliable neighbors.
C)  people in the city lived from paycheck to paycheck.
D)  all of the above.

Question 7

One of the reasons that increasing urbanization contributed to problems of poverty was:

Accepted Answer

A)  people in the country had access to more resources.
B)  people in the city had fewer close relationships.
C)  people in the city were wage earners.
D)  all of the above.

Question 8

Define "indoor relief."

Accepted Answer

A)  People were cared for in their own homes.
B)  People would be cared for at a shelter.
C)  People donated to people who needed help.
D)  People were cared for by being taken into some form of custodial care.

Question 9

Define "Social Darwinism."

Accepted Answer

A)  The concept that all people are equal in social status.
B)  The concept of survival of the fittest being applied to the marketplace as well as to the jungle.
C)  Government intervention to help people with economic and social problems.
D)  None of the above.

Question 10

"The colonial approach to poor relief was characterized by another idea that reflected the development of a unique culture in the New World." What was this idea?

Accepted Answer

A)  Work for higher wages
B)  Working for themselves
C)  The importance of work ethic
D)  None of the above

Question 11

The Great Depression caused many shifts in beliefs about the poor.The only one that the Depression did not cause was that:

Accepted Answer

A)  poverty in most cases was a result more of structural factors than of personal failings.
B)  the same factors that cause poverty during hard times also cause some people to be poor during times of economic prosperity.
C)  the private sector can't handle massive need.
D)  none of the above.

Question 12

Among the developments leading to the passage of the Statute of Laborers in England were:

Accepted Answer

A)  the plague.
B)  the Inquisition.
C)  the Reformation.
D)  increased taxation.

Question 13

The first of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation was:

Accepted Answer

A)  Federal Emergency Relief.
B)  Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance.
C)  Aid to Dependent Children.
D)  Unemployment Insurance

Question 14

All of the following have been major contributors to an increase in poverty,except:

Accepted Answer

A)  famine.
B)  psychological depression.
C)  urbanization.
D)  economic depression.

Question 15

What was the Statute of Laborers?

Accepted Answer

A)  An act that sought to solve the labor problem by setting a maximum wage,compelling unattached workers to work for whoever wanted them,forbidding laborers from traveling,and making it illegal for able-bodied men to beg.
B)  An act that sought to solve the labor problem by setting a minimum wage,contracting workers to work in a steady field,encouraging laborers to travel,and making it legal for able-bodied men to beg.
C)  An act that sought to solve the labor problem by not having a set wage,contracting workers to work in a steady field and letting them live off of their employers land.
D)  None of the above.

Question 16

Other than workman's compensation,other forms of social insurance were developed for:

Accepted Answer

A)  the elderly.
B)  mothers of young children.
C)  the blind.
D)  all of the above.

Question 17

Dorothea Dix successfully convinced Congress to appropriate lands for mental institutions.Which president vetoed this measure?

Accepted Answer

A)  Abraham Lincoln
B)  Millard Fillmore
C)  Franklin Pierce
D)  James Buchanan

Question 18

In the 1950s,the population of the United States grew by an additional 30 million.This increase was caused by:

Accepted Answer

A)  immigration.
B)  improved health and sanitation.
C)  increased birth rate.
D)  all of the above.

Question 19

How were most public antipoverty efforts in the 1850's funded?

Accepted Answer

A)  state and local governments
B)  donations
C)  Both A and B
D)  Neither A nor B

Question 20

Which one of these statements is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Liberals,a group that includes most social workers,were generally opposed to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act and the TANF program it instituted.
B)  The Family Support Act of 1988 and the TANF program that replaced it represented a new approach to the problem of public dependency.
C)  The first major effort toward welfare reform climaxed in 1988 with the passage of the Family Support Act.
D)  None of the above.

Exam 9: The Development of Antipoverty Programs