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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. What does AFDC stand for?
(a) Aid to Fund Dependecy Collections.
(b) Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
(c) All of Future Dependency Construction.
(d) Area of Future Development Construction.

2. Where did the Waters family live before moving to the Flats?
(a) Georgia.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Mississippi.

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

4. Why did Stack change names and locations in the book?
(a) To protect identities.
(b) To keep them from getting kicked off welfare.
(c) To protect them from the mainstream.
(d) Because they asked her too.

5. What was the goal of the spokesmen in the Flats?
(a) To help their community.
(b) To get assistance from the government.
(c) To enlighten others to their plight.
(d) To present a better image of themselves to the white community.

Short Answer Questions

1. When 188 mothers were surveyed on who they would choose to raise their children if they died what was the top choice?

2. What is Leo Jackson's job?

3. What was the name of Lottie's baby's father?

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

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

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