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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Stack protect the identities of those she interviewed?
(a) She made them up.
(b) She left out important details.
(c) She changed their names.
(d) She moved them to a different city.

2. What does AFDC stand for?
(a) Aid to Fund Dependecy Collections.
(b) Area of Future Development Construction.
(c) All of Future Dependency Construction.
(d) Aid to Families with Dependent Children.

3. Why did Ruby Banks feel an obligation to always swap with her mother?
(a) Because she is family.
(b) Because it is her duty.
(c) Because her mother is elderly.
(d) Because her mother is needy.

4. How did people in the Flats increase their social circle?
(a) Helping others.
(b) Making friends.
(c) Talking to new people.
(d) Through swapping.

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

6. What is Leo Jackson's job?
(a) Janitor.
(b) Truck driver.
(c) Construction worker.
(d) Hod carrier.

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

8. What is the necessary income for a family of four in Jackson Harbor?
(a) $8,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $4,000.

9. What was the age range of most of the adults Stack studied?
(a) 30-60.
(b) 20-50.
(c) 20-40.
(d) 30-50.

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

11. In what year did Stack begin her study?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1969.

12. What is a family with both a mother and father called?
(a) Multifamily.
(b) Matriarchy.
(c) Nuclear.
(d) Patriarchy.

13. Who wrote the book "Method and Measurement in Sociology"?
(a) Jones.
(b) Cicourel.
(c) Stack.
(d) Allen.

14. How much money did the AFDC send Ruby to get a new couch?
(a) $40.
(b) $50.
(c) $20.
(d) $30.

15. What causes a necessity for exchanging things and services in the Flats?
(a) Kin.
(b) Dependency.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the goal of the spokesmen in the Flats?

2. Who wrote "The Souls of Black Folk"?

3. How was the person that Ruby traded corn bread and greens with related to her?

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

5. How long did it take for Magnolia and Calvin Waters inheritance to be spent?

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