Test Your Hunger I.Q.
How much do you know about hunger and poverty? Take the quiz below and find out!
1. Nearly ____ percent of the US population lacked adequate employment as of January.
a.15 b.70 c.20
2. How many Afghan children under 18 applied for asylum in Europe last year?
a.3,800 b.6,000 c.4,300
3. An estimated 1.02 billion people across the ____ are hungry.
a.World b.US c.State of Mississippi
4. Every____, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes.
a.Day b.Week c.Month
5. In 2005, almost 1.4 billion people lived below the international poverty line, earning less than ____ per day.
a.$3.25 b.$2.25 c.$1.25
6. Each year, ____ children under five die because they are undernourished.
a.3 million b.1 million c.5 million
7. ____ in ____ households in the U.S. are living with hunger or are at risk of hunger.
a.1 in 5 b.1 in 6 c.1 in 7
8. ____ million people, including 15.6 million children, live in homes that are at risk of hunger.
a.27.5 b.31.8 c.38.1
9. In 2006, about ____ million children died before they reached their fifth birthday.
a.9.7 b.4.5 c.10
—From “Feasting Together: So That None Shall Go Hungry,” the 2010 Sacred Seasons Hunger Emphasis packet, Seeds of Hope Publishers, Copyright 2010. Katie Minchew, at this writing, was a professional writing student at Baylor University in Waco, TX.
For the answers, see the pdf “Test Your Hunger IQ” below:
September 17th, 2011 - 10:23
So why is the majority of these questions about the US and not the world?
I thought you were an organization that deals with world hunger.
September 23rd, 2011 - 15:02
I’m not sure I understand your question. If you are talking about the “Test Your Hunger IQ” page, only three of the eight questions are about the US. Those, however, are last year’s statistics, and we are about to post the 2011 stats. We recently completed the 2011 Hunger Emphasis packet, which we will post once it becomes a back issue. (We feel like that’s only fair to the people who pay for subscriptions to Sacred Seasons.) I’m not sure what we’ll do about the quiz, but we may leave it for now, but post new stats in those widgets. We’ll be glad to email you the new stats, either as a Word document or as a pdf. If you would like to receive them, please send an email seedseditor@clearwire.net. Thank you for your interest in hunger issues.