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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Women and Men.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What affects a person's perception?
(a) Their intelligence.
(b) Racism.
(c) Their upbringing.
(d) Bias.

2. According to residents of the Flats, who typically raised a young girl's first child?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) She does.
(d) Her older sister.

3. Who did Violet leave her two older children with when she moved?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Their father.
(d) Her mother.

4. Who did Terence Platt live with when he was a child?
(a) His mother and her boyfriend.
(b) His father and his girlfriend.
(c) His grandparents.
(d) His aunt.

5. How many of the 188 AFDC mothers surveyed by Stack were raising their own children?
(a) 70.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did those in the Flats need cooperative support?

2. What was the name of Julia's second child's father?

3. Who was the second family that Stack met in the Flats?

4. What was the age range of most of the adults Stack studied?

5. Who moved in with Amanda Johnson's family to help out when they were struggling?

(see the answer key)

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