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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 does Stack call the inability to understand and research?
(a) Lack of ability.
(b) Failure to understand.
(c) Neo-colonialism.
(d) Incapacity.

2. Why do people in the Flats want to expand their group of kin?
(a) To gain friends.
(b) To have more people who are obligated to help them.
(c) To be more social.
(d) To get a hand up.

3. According to Stack, what common belief do most studies of blacks reinforce?
(a) Popular stereotypes.
(b) The status quo.
(c) That they are unwilling to get ahead in life.
(d) That they are unreliable.

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

5. What is the Jackson family's average income?
(a) $4,500.
(b) $3,500.
(c) $2,000.
(d) $5,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What affects a person's perception?

2. What does AFDC stand for?

3. Who was the first family that Stack met in the Flats?

4. How does the US Census classify Jackson Harbor?

5. What didn't Ruby believe in?

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