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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What kin did people in the Flats feel most obligated to?
(a) Children.
(b) Male.
(c) Female.
(d) Mothers.

5. How was the person that Ruby traded corn bread and greens with related to her?
(a) Aunt.
(b) Sister.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Mother.

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

7. What is a family called when a mother is the head?
(a) Matriarchy.
(b) Patriarchy.
(c) Mother run family.
(d) Mother in charge.

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

9. What is another term for welfare?
(a) ACDF.
(b) DEV.
(c) CPS.
(d) AFDC.

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

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

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

13. How did Stack come in contact with the families she studied?
(a) By holding a meet and greet.
(b) She found them on her own.
(c) Through a young woman in the community.
(d) By befriending children.

14. 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 prevent discrimination.
(d) To take care of the children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the AFDC money did Ruby give her mom?

2. According to government statistics, what prevents people from escaping poverty?

3. What affects a person's perception?

4. What was the most common thing those in the black community experienced when interacting with a white person?

5. What is the title of William Ryan's book?

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