See How Much You Know About U.S. Foreign Aid

A woman displaced by floods uses a box from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. government's main foreign aid agency, to move her belongings in Dadu, Pakistan, in 2010.
A woman displaced by floods uses a box from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. government's main foreign aid agency, to move her belongings in Dadu, Pakistan, in 2010. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

Take this quiz to test your knowledge of the purposes, scale, and history of U.S. aid to the rest of the world.

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September 11, 2018 11:00 am (EST)

A woman displaced by floods uses a box from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. government's main foreign aid agency, to move her belongings in Dadu, Pakistan, in 2010.
A woman displaced by floods uses a box from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. government's main foreign aid agency, to move her belongings in Dadu, Pakistan, in 2010. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
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Test your knowledge of countries, history, economics, foreign policy, and more.

At more than $40 billion per year, foreign aid constitutes one of the chief elements of U.S. global involvement. How much do you know about this often debated topic?

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