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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: The Flats.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the book "Method and Measurement in Sociology"?
(a) Jones.
(b) Stack.
(c) Cicourel.
(d) Allen.

2. According to the US Census what percent of blacks live in deteriorating housing?
(a) 18.
(b) 26.
(c) 23.
(d) 29.

3. What connects Jackson Harbor to Chicago?
(a) A major highway.
(b) A neighborhood.
(c) A major rail line.
(d) A gravel road.

4. What does the relationship of a researcher and his subjects resemble?
(a) Oppressor and oppressed.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Family.
(d) Teacher and student.

5. How did people in the Flats refer to their friends and neighbors?
(a) By their surnames.
(b) By a nicknames.
(c) Kindly.
(d) By their first names.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the girl that Stack became very close to in the Flats?

2. What does Stack call the inability to understand and research?

3. What affects a person's perception?

4. In what decade did Stack begin her study?

5. According to the US Census, what percent of black deaths in 1965 were caused by diseases of infancy?

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