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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does the US Census classify Jackson Harbor?
(a) Small community.
(b) Urbanized area.
(c) Poor area.
(d) Metropolis.

8. Who wrote "Tomorrow's Tomorrow"?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Joyce Ladner.
(c) Carol Stack.
(d) Elliot Stickler.

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

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

11. How old was Julia?
(a) 25.
(b) 24.
(c) 26.
(d) 27.

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

13. What causes the poor to create ways to cope with circumstances out of their control?
(a) Their lack of resources.
(b) The nature of the American economy.
(c) Welfare.
(d) The white community.

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 discrimination.
(c) To take care of the children.
(d) To prevent biased research studies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did Stack begin her study?

2. What type of people did researchers establish contact with?

3. Who did Stack want to establish contact with?

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

5. Why did Stack change names and locations in the book?

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