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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Child-Keeping.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the population of Jackson Harbor?
(a) 15,000.
(b) 18,000.
(c) 9,000.
(d) 11,000.

2. Who took Loretta in when she turned five?
(a) Her paternal grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her aunt and uncle.
(d) Her father.

3. How many other researchers had conducted studies in the Flats during the decade in which Stack conducted her study?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

4. How often did kin exchange items and services?
(a) Weekly.
(b) Monthly.
(c) Daily, sometimes hourly.
(d) Yearly.

5. In what year did Stack begin her study?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1970.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the necessary income for a family of four in Jackson Harbor?

2. What was the name of the man who Billy considered to be her father?

3. What does William Ryan say causes the deterioration of most black families?

4. How many of the 188 AFDC mothers surveyed by Stack were raising their own children?

5. How much of the AFDC money did Ruby give her mom?

(see the answer key)

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