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"Bread Crumbs"
An ELCA World Hunger quiz

  8.5 x 11 sheet:  PDF  |  Word   (Suggested use: copy front-to-back with questions on front, answers on back)

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1. The primary cause of world hunger is (choose one):

Ο overpopulation
Ο third world debt
Ο trade imbalance
Ο environmental degradation
Ο HIV/AIDS
Ο poverty
Ο drought
Ο racism
Ο war

2. There are 6.55 billion people on earth. How many go hungry every day? (choose one)

Ο 719 million
Ο 854 million
Ο 933 million

3. (True or false)  Women and children are the first to suffer from hunger and malnutrition. [Answer ______ ]

4. There are how many hungry people in today’s world compared to 25 years ago? (choose one)

Ο more
Ο fewer
Ο the same number

5. In 2008, how many domestic hunger grants were funded by the ELCA? (choose one)

Ο 203
Ο 272
Ο 328

6. Lutheran World Relief and the Lutheran World Federation were founded in what decade? (choose one)

Ο 1920s
Ο 1930s
Ο 1940s

7. What region of the world today has the most people who go hungry (on a per capita basis)?

[Answer __________________________________ ]

8. For the ELCA to achieve the 1999 Churchwide Assembly (Denver) goal of reaching $25 million in income for world hunger, how much would every baptized member have to give per year? (choose one)

Ο $2
Ο $5
Ο $10

9. Every day, 16,000 children die of hunger-related diseases. That’s one child every ______ seconds.

10. In the United States, how many people experience hunger or the risk of hunger? (choose one)

Ο 14.9 million
Ο 21.7 million
Ο 35.5 million

ANSWERS  ["Bread Crumbs” – An ELCA World Hunger quiz]


1. World hunger is a complicated reality. All of these are causes, but Bread for the World identifies poverty as the primary cause of hunger.

2. 854 million

3. True

4. Fewer (source, Bread for the World). Our efforts have made a difference! But current trends are increasingly negative.

5. 328 – At www.elca.org/grantinghope you can get information to customize this question to your state or synod. For example, ask your congregation or synod members how many grants were funded in your synod or state.

6. 1940s (They emerged out of the ashes of World War II): LWR-1945, LWF-1947

7. Sub-Saharan Africa

8. $5

9. 5.4 seconds

10. 35.5 million

Updated April 2008

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