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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, what do most studies of the poor black communities not acknowledge?
(a) Their resourcefulness.
(b) Their ability to think outside the box.
(c) Their dependency on kin.
(d) Their ingenuity.

2. How old was Lottie James when she got pregnant?
(a) 14.
(b) 17.
(c) 16.
(d) 15.

3. Who bought Amanda Johnson's clothes when she was a child?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her mother's boyfriend.

4. In the Flats kin feel a lot of pressure to help each other. Why is this?
(a) They are viewed as greedy if they don't.
(b) It is necessary to survive.
(c) Because of their relationship.
(d) Because of the kins neediness.

5. According to Stack, who did anthropologists consider people kinsman of?
(a) Family friends.
(b) People they develop relationships with.
(c) Family.
(d) Their natural mother and father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Viola Jackson's job?

2. How were people who refused to swap viewed?

3. What female family member did Georgia and her children live with?

4. How many of the 188 AFDC mothers surveyed by Stack were raising their own children?

5. What didn't Ruby believe in?

(see the answer key)

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