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Do You Know the Facts About Literacy? (quiz)
1. Illiteracy costs U.S. businesses how much money each year in lost productivity?
a. $225 billion
b. $500 billion
c. $100 billion
2. What percentages of American adults are unable to read a book at the eighth grade level?
3. Which month did Ohio's Governor, Bob Taft designate as "Ohio Adult Literacy Month"?
a. November
b. October
c. September
4. A high school dropout has less than a 1 in 3 chance of finding a job?
5. How much money in taxes is paid to support individuals who are receiving public assistance and are unemployable due to illiteracy?
a. $10 thousand a year
b. $1 million a year
c. $5 billion a year
6. Literacy is defined as the ability to read or write?
7. How many individuals are added to the adult illiterate population in the U.S?
a. 1 million
b. 3 thousand
c. 2.2 million
8. The cost of illiteracy to businesses and taxpayers is estimated at $20 billion annually?
9. What percentages of Ohioans over age 18 don't have a high school diploma?
10. What percentages of Americans, who have jobs, are classified as functionally illiterate?
a. 2 million
b. 10 million
c. 5 million
11. 1 in 5 American adults are functionally illiterate?
12. What percentages of 17 year olds are functionally illiterate?
13. What percentage of individuals, in the United States, cannot read well enough to fill out an application, read a food label, or read a simple story to a child?
a. 10 million
b. 60 million
c. 44 million
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