As You Sit in the Waiting Room of a Doctor's

question 39

Multiple Choice

As you sit in the waiting room of a doctor's office leafing through a magazine, you see a letter to the editor about world hunger. In it, the author stated, "…and thus, hunger worsens poverty....". Does hunger worsen poverty?

• A) Yes, but it can be corrected with appropriate access to reproductive health care.
• B) No; if hungry people work hard enough they can work to get themselves out of poverty.
• C) Yes, it propagates poverty by increasing the death rate and leaving many families as single-parent households.
• D) Yes, hunger makes poverty worse by robbing a person of the good health and the physical and mental energy needed to be active and productive.

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