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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Stack change names and locations in the book?
(a) Because they asked her too.
(b) To keep them from getting kicked off welfare.
(c) To protect identities.
(d) To protect them from the mainstream.

2. When did Stack's book on the migration of blacks to the north get published?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1965.

3. What percent of blacks live in unfit housing according to the US Census?
(a) 22.
(b) 15.
(c) 13.
(d) 34.

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

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

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

7. What is the title of William Ryan's book?
(a) Blaming the Victim.
(b) Victims in Charge.
(c) The Blame Game.
(d) The Role of Blacks as Victims.

8. Who wrote "The Souls of Black Folk"?
(a) Carol Stack.
(b) John Goodnough.
(c) W.E.B. DuBois.
(d) John. Allen.

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

10. What parts of life in the Flats are completely intertwined?
(a) Family and social.
(b) Personal and professional.
(c) Economic and personal.
(d) Social and economic.

11. Why did those in the Flats need cooperative support?
(a) To make life easier.
(b) To gain kin.
(c) To survive.
(d) To help each other.

12. According to Stack, what do most studies of black families compare themselves to?
(a) Mainstream society.
(b) The status quo.
(c) White families.
(d) Their past culture.

13. What was the main goal of the black activist organization in the Flats?
(a) To protect the people of the community.
(b) To prevent biased research studies.
(c) To take care of the children.
(d) To prevent discrimination.

14. How did people in the Flats refer to their friends and neighbors?
(a) By their first names.
(b) Kindly.
(c) By a nicknames.
(d) By their surnames.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of Jackson Harbor's population is black?

2. According to Stack's findings, at what age do most blacks no longer have most of their original teeth?

3. How many children do the Jacksons have?

4. How much money did the AFDC send Ruby to get a new couch?

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

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