All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Carol B. Stack
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All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Viola Jackson's job?
(a) Janitor.
(b) Cook.
(c) Nanny.
(d) Maid.

2. 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 the kins neediness.
(d) Because of their relationship.

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

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

5. What affects a person's perception?
(a) Bias.
(b) Racism.
(c) Their intelligence.
(d) Their upbringing.

6. What is the Jackson family's average income?
(a) $2,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $3,500.
(d) $4,500.

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

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

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

10. What are 63% of the black citizens in Jackson Harbor employed as?
(a) Service workers.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Maintenance workers.
(d) Caretakers.

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

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

13. What type of strategies was Stack studying in the Flats?
(a) Social.
(b) Personal.
(c) Professional.
(d) Domestic.

14. What does the relationship of a researcher and his subjects resemble?
(a) Family.
(b) Oppressor and oppressed.
(c) Teacher and student.
(d) Friendship.

15. How many other researchers had conducted studies in the Flats during the decade in which Stack conducted her study?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What causes the poor to create ways to cope with circumstances out of their control?

3. Who wrote the book "Method and Measurement in Sociology"?

4. Who writes about "kindred being an ego-centered group"?

5. How many children do the Jacksons have?

(see the answer keys)

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