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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. According to Stack, what do most studies of the poor black communities not acknowledge?
(a) Their resourcefulness.
(b) Their dependency on kin.
(c) Their ingenuity.
(d) Their ability to think outside the box.

2. According to Stack who did those in the Flats expect to help a mother with her child?
(a) The father.
(b) The father's kin.
(c) Friends of the family.
(d) Her kin.

3. What percentage of Jackson Harbor's population is black?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 7.
(d) 15.

4. How was the person that Ruby traded corn bread and greens with related to her?
(a) Sister.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Mother.
(d) Aunt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book "Method and Measurement in Sociology"?

2. Who says that the culture of poverty is political in nature?

3. According to Stack, what do most studies of black families compare themselves to?

4. According to Stack's findings, at what age do most blacks no longer have most of their original teeth?

5. How does the US Census classify Jackson Harbor?

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