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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Swapping.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did those in the Flats usually call trading?
(a) Swapping.
(b) Lending.
(c) Bartering.
(d) Borrowing.

2. How often did kin exchange items and services?
(a) Daily, sometimes hourly.
(b) Weekly.
(c) Yearly.
(d) Monthly.

3. Who did Stack want to establish contact with?
(a) Poor families.
(b) Men in power.
(c) Single men.
(d) Single women.

4. How many families was Stack introduced to in the beginning of her study?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

5. What is a family called when a mother is the head?
(a) Mother in charge.
(b) Matriarchy.
(c) Mother run family.
(d) Patriarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of the black population in Jackson Harbor is unemployed?

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

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

4. How much of the AFDC money did Ruby give her mom?

5. Who was the second family that Stack met in the Flats?

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