Deck 13: Food and Hunger, Justin Sean Myers

Question 1

1) The majority of people who are hungry and struggling with food insecurity are

A) lazy.
B) too young or too old to work, medically unable to work, or working.
C) have substance abuse problems.
D) All of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

2) Lack of access to healthy food is

A) implicit hunger.
B) explicit hunger.
C) immobility hunger.
D) urban hunger.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

3) Which of the following groups are most likely to be food insecure?

A) Female-headed households
B) Male-headed households
C) Dual-headed households
D) Households with no children

Answer 3

A

Question 4

4) Food security is defined as

A) having enough to eat to survive.
B) having enough caloric intake to live.
C) not living in a food desert or swamp.
D) having access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life.

Question 5

5) Low-income areas with limited or no access to supermarkets are referred to as

A) food banks.
B) food swamps.
C) food deserts.
D) food apartheid.

Question 6

6) An area in which large relative amounts of energy-dense snack foods inundate healthy food options is referred to as

A) a food swamp.
B) a food desert.
C) food apartheid.
D) a food bank.

Question 7

7) The hunger-obesity paradox refers to

A) the ways that Americans living in food deserts are malnourished while the rest of Americans are obese.
B) people with eating disorders that fluctuate between being too malnourished and overweight.
C) communities that both higher than average rates malnutrition and obesity.
D) the ways that class and race result in some people being obese and others malnourished.

Question 8

8) Food swamps and food deserts are an outcome of

A) economic and political practices of public and private institutions.
B) poor choices by the people who live in them.
C) cultural factors that lead to poor decision making by the poor and racial minorities.
D) All of the above

Question 9

9) The term "food apartheid" refers to

A) the fact that urban areas haver higher rates of food insecurity than suburbs.
B) the culture factors that lead racial minorities to make poor food choices.
C) the ways that racial dynamics undergird food inequalities.
D) the fact that whites are disproportionately obese and racial minorities malnourished.

Question 10

10) Long-term structural solutions to hunger include

A) higher wages, full employment, better income redistribution programs.
B) cutting government social welfare programs, such as SNAP.
C) better funding for food banks and soup kitchens.
D) the use of emergency food networks to counteract food deserts and swamps.

Question 11

11) Which of the following statements is true regarding emergency food networks?

A) They serve as a "moral safety valve."
B) The number of them in the U.S. has grown over time.
C) They are reliant on donations.
D) All of the above

Question 12

12) The largest single beneficiary of SNAP is

A) children.
B) the elderly.
C) women.
D) people living in rural areas.

Question 13

13) Research about SNAP shows that

A) it is dependency-creating program that encourages people not to find jobs.
B) it is a countercyclical program that expands when jobs are scarce and contracts when the economy is strong.
C) SNAP is no longer needed as food insecurity is no longer a problem in the U.S.
D) most people on SNAP take advantage on the program and buy non-necessities, such as alcohol.

Question 14

14) Food security in the U.S. is ______ in other wealthy nations.

A) lower than
B) higher than
C) the same as
D) more evenly distributed than

Question 15

15) Over time, the value of the minimum wage in the U.S. has

A) decreased.
B) increased.
C) remained constant.
D) doubled.

Question 16

16) Which of the following characterizes people who work in the food system the U.S.?

A) Low rates of food insecurity as they have easy access to food
B) Lower rates of food insecurity than the U.S. workforce generally
C) Higher rates of food insecurity than the U.S. workforce generally
D) High levels of obesity because of easy access to food

Question 17

17) A key cause of food insecurity in the U.S. is which of the following?

A) A shortage of food.
B) Providing food aid to foreign countries.
C) Poverty and inequality.
D) A loss of farmland as a result of urbanization.

Question 18

18) Research shows ________ is the most effective approach for combating poverty and hunger in the Global South.

A) investment in large-scale infrastructure projects
B) investment in smallholder agriculture
C) investment in large-scale export-oriented agriculture
D) trade liberalization policies

Question 19

19) Which of the following best characterizes the geographical distribution of food insecurity in the US?

A) It is evenly distributed across all parts of the U.S.
B) It is higher in northern states and lower in southern states.
C) It is higher in southern states and lower in northern states.
D) It is only an issue in urban areas.

Question 20

20) In the U.S., which statement is true regarding supermarkets?

A) A person's race and class influences their access to supermarkets.
B) All people have equal access to supermarkets.
C) Women have better access to supermarkets than women.
D) Race influences access to supermarkets but class does not.

Question 21

1. What are emergency food Networks (EFN)? Explain whether they are a short- or long-term approach to addressing hunger.

Question 22

2. Describe the hunger-obesity paradox.

Question 23

3. Describe how where a person lives can impact their access to food in the U.S.

Question 24

1. Why do affluent communities tend to have better access to healthy and nutritious food than low-income communities? Write an essay that discusses the historical and structural processes that have shape food environments.

Question 25

2. Class, race, and gender are all factors that affect food insecurity. Write an essay that, first, examines who the most food insecure are in the U.S. Second, discuss specific ways a person's race, class, and gender may impact their access to food.