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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the girl that Stack became very close to in the Flats?
(a) Sara.
(b) Magnolia.
(c) Ruby.
(d) Caroline.

4. What type of people did researchers establish contact with?
(a) Women in power.
(b) Men in power.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Leaders of the community.

5. Who were welfare benefits designed to help?
(a) Families.
(b) Women and children.
(c) Children.
(d) Men.

6. What was the goal of the spokesmen in the Flats?
(a) To get assistance from the government.
(b) To help their community.
(c) To present a better image of themselves to the white community.
(d) To enlighten others to their plight.

7. Who says that the culture of poverty is political in nature?
(a) Hylan Lewis.
(b) Elliott Stickler.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Carol Stack.

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

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

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

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

12. What was the most common thing those in the black community experienced when interacting with a white person?
(a) Bias
(b) They were looked down on.
(c) Racism.
(d) Unfair treatment.

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

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

15. How many years had the Jacksons been in the Flats when Stack met them?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 17.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were those who claimed to be the black leaders of the Flats viewed in their community?

2. What are 63% of the black citizens in Jackson Harbor employed as?

3. Who was the second family that Stack met in the Flats?

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

5. In what year did Stack begin her study?

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