The silent epidemic of illiteracy threatens over how many millions of adults
worldwide?
What is 785
100
List the top 5 literate countries according to the reading.
What is Finland
Georgia
Greenland
Luxembourg
Cuba or Poland or Estonia
100
What are some problems in life you may run into, being non-literate?
What is applying for a loan, understanding medicine, instructions signing a contract... etc.
200
What percent of the unemployed people who fall between the age of 16 and 21
cannot read well enough to be considered functionally literate?
What is 50%
200
Fill in the blank:
The Human Development Index (HDI) is inversely proportional to
literacy rates: the top nineteen countries claim___% literacy and above. The bottom
seventeen countries range from literacy rates of ___% to ___%.
What is 99%, 23% to 68%.
200
What percent of Americans read below the level needed to earn a living wage?
What is 20%
300
School dropouts cost the nation ________ in social service expenditures and lost tax
revenues.
What is $240 Billion
300
In a study of 20 ‘high income’ countries, the US ranked ___th on literacy tests.
What is 12th
300
How does literacy relate to poverty according to the graph?
What is The higher the literacy rate the lower the poverty rate.