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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Black Urban Poor.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of people did researchers establish contact with?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Women in power.
(c) Leaders of the community.
(d) Men in power.

3. Who was the second family that Stack met in the Flats?
(a) Ruby and Otis Jackson.
(b) Magnolia and Calvin Waters.
(c) John and Sylvia Waters
(d) Leo and Viola Jackson.

4. What causes the poor to create ways to cope with circumstances out of their control?
(a) Welfare.
(b) The white community.
(c) Their lack of resources.
(d) The nature of the American economy.

5. How do those being studied in a community usually view a researcher?
(a) As a friend.
(b) As family.
(c) As an outsider.
(d) As a teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years did Stack live in the Flats?

2. How did Stack come in contact with the families she studied?

3. How many years had the Jacksons been in the Flats when Stack met them?

4. What does AFDC stand for?

5. What connects Jackson Harbor to Chicago?

(see the answer key)

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