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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Personal Kindreds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did those in the Flats need cooperative support?
(a) To gain kin.
(b) To make life easier.
(c) To help each other.
(d) To survive.

2. Who wrote "The Souls of Black Folk"?
(a) W.E.B. DuBois.
(b) John Goodnough.
(c) John. Allen.
(d) Carol Stack.

3. According to Stack's findings, at what age do most blacks no longer have most of their original teeth?
(a) 34.
(b) 55.
(c) 25.
(d) 22.

4. According to Stack, what common belief do most studies of blacks reinforce?
(a) The status quo.
(b) That they are unreliable.
(c) That they are unwilling to get ahead in life.
(d) Popular stereotypes.

5. When 188 mothers were surveyed on who they would choose to raise their children if they died, who was the second choice?
(a) The maternal grandmother.
(b) Another maternal family member.
(c) A maternal aunt.
(d) The child's father or his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another term for welfare?

2. What does AFDC stand for?

3. Why do people in the Flats want to expand their group of kin?

4. In what year did Stack begin her study?

5. When did Stack's book on the migration of blacks to the north get published?

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