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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did those in the Flats usually call trading?
(a) Bartering.
(b) Borrowing.
(c) Swapping.
(d) Lending.

2. How many assistants did Stack have helping her with her study?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

3. What was Julia's cousin's name?
(a) Mae.
(b) Sara.
(c) Magnolia.
(d) Maya.

4. Who writes about "kindred being an ego-centered group"?
(a) Lindell.
(b) Maxson.
(c) Goodnough.
(d) Stack.

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

6. How long did it take for Magnolia and Calvin Waters inheritance to be spent?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two months.
(c) Six months.
(d) One and a half months.

7. What is the population of Jackson Harbor?
(a) 9,000.
(b) 11,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 18,000.

8. What percentage of Jackson Harbor's population is black?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 7.
(d) 15.

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

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

11. What is a symbol of trust in the Flats?
(a) Temporary child exchange.
(b) Helping others.
(c) Getting to know new people.
(d) Large kin groups.

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

13. What did Ruby do with the rest of the AFDC money?
(a) Buy food.
(b) Wash clothes.
(c) Buy a couch.
(d) Buy new clothes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does William Ryan say causes the deterioration of most black families?

2. What was the age range of most of the adults Stack studied?

3. What is a family with both a mother and father called?

4. Why did Ruby Banks feel an obligation to always swap with her mother?

5. Who did Ruby trade corn bread and greens with so that she could get milk and diapers?

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