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We suggest you do the entire quiz first, then come back to click 'View Answer' and check whether or not you were correct. Multiply the number of correct answers by 10 to get your score out of 100. The answers may surprise you! You may also be surprised to know that a score of 50 percent is way above average!! This is a interesting quiz to print out and give to a class, or other suitable event. Our intention here is to illuminate the underlying myths and assumptions that most of us have about hunger’s causes and cures. It is a well known fact that the way we each think about hunger is often the greatest obstacle to ending it. We also hope that through our Hunger Quiz you will come to understand that one person really can do a great deal to end global hunger. 1.
Hunger
is caused when finite food-producing resources of the world are stretched
to the limit by too much demand. 2.Most
of the world’s hunger occurs because people live in countries where
food shortages are commonplace -- countries in Latin America, Asia and
especially Africa. 3.
When a
person is starving to death it clearly indicates that their deepest
need is their physical need for food. 5.The poor
are the hungry and the hungry are the poor, because they perpetuate
their own vicious circle. 6.
The starving person is easy to identify
and to remedy. 7. Famine
and Wars cause the most deaths by starvation. 9. Droughts,
floods and other catastrophic "Acts of God" beyond human control are
the main underlying causes of famine. It's really not anybody's fault. 10. A
reasonable minimum goal would be to provide a child regularly with enough
food to satisfy "feeling hungry". At less than 2 cents a day
to feed a child, that sounds like the goal.
3.
False. The most immediate urgent need does
not mean that is a person’s deepest need. Feeding a starving person
is crisis intervention only. The deepest need is more far reaching.
That’s why to both the critical life saving, and life building needs
must be provided for. The underlying goal must be to break the inheritence
of poverty for both this life and for a Not all of the sufferers suffer equally. The vast majority (75%) of the 24,000 people that die everyday because of hunger or diseases related to hunger and malnutrition are boys and girls under 5, then the elderly and women. Typically women will give the food to the men and children first, and themselves only after that. 5.
False 6.
False. 7. False.
8. False.
9. False.
10. False.
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The
world today produces enough grain alone to provide every human being
on the planet with 3500 calories a day -- enough to make most of us
fat! And we're just talking grain here. If we counted many other commonly
eaten foods -- vegetables, beans, nuts, root crops, fruits, grass-fed
meats, fish -- enough is available to provide each man and woman, boy
and girl with at least 4.3 pounds of food per person per day. The real
problems are the 'people' ones: politics, economics, access, distribution,
food safety, war, and, above all, poverty, plus the the organizational
ones: transportation, spoilage, contamination. Through your participation
with World Legacy , we can provide nutritious food to those who don't
have access to food. It's not a matter of not enough food to go around.
It's a matter of getting the available food to those who are without
it. 
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of generations to come. Some of these means incluce introducing improved
seeds, teaching people to grow drought-resistant crops and to use improved
farming and storage methods, providing a source of clean, safe water
and making available a program of preventative health care, shelter
for the homeless, education and training, and assistance to families
in starting small businesses. Often it
takes just a few simple resources for impoverished people to be able
to grow enough food to become self-sufficient. (Source UNICEF)
Famine
and wars cause just 10% of hunger deaths, although these tend to be
the ones you hear about most often. The majority of hunger deaths are
caused by chronic malnutrition. People simply cannot get enough to eat.
This in turn is caused by extreme poverty. 
It's
not a simple matter of whether a child can satisfy his or her appetite
enough to stop "feeling hungry". It's about getting the right
quantities and combinations of nutrients. Three quarters of the children
who die worldwide of causes related to malnutrition are what nutritionists
describe as mildly to moderately malnourished and betray no outward
signs of problems to a casual observor. Besides
causing death, chronic malnutrition also causes impaired vision, listlessness,
stunted growth, and greatly increased susceptibility to disease.
Malnourished people are unable to function at even a basic level
A diet that merely satisfies a hungry child's appetite may have too
little fat or carbohydrate to provide a reasonable amount of energy.
It may have too little protein to create muscle, brains, or blood cells.
Minerals such as iron, iodine, and zinc can be missing. Or vitamins
may be in too short a supply for the body to properly rebuild its worn
or damaged parts. It is estimated that
some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition,
about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
(Statistics from Oxafam)