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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Child-Keeping.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Stack's findings, at what age do most blacks no longer have most of their original teeth?
(a) 55.
(b) 25.
(c) 22.
(d) 34.

2. What percentage of the black population in Jackson Harbor is unemployed?
(a) 65.
(b) 25.
(c) 19.
(d) 18.

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

4. Who did Ruby trade corn bread and greens with so that she could get milk and diapers?
(a) Magnolia Waters.
(b) Carol Stack.
(c) Joann Allen.
(d) Virginia Thomas.

5. When 188 mothers were surveyed on who they would choose to raise their children if they died, who was the second choice?
(a) The maternal grandmother.
(b) Another maternal family member.
(c) The child's father or his mother.
(d) A maternal aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What affects a person's perception?

2. According to Stack, who were the disciplinarians in the lives of most children in the Flats?

3. Who bought Amanda Johnson's clothes when she was a child?

4. How were those who claimed to be the black leaders of the Flats viewed in their community?

5. How did people in the Flats increase their social circle?

(see the answer key)

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