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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to government statistics, what prevents people from escaping poverty?
(a) Lack of education.
(b) The government
(c) Lack of jobs.
(d) Mainstream society.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Stack's son?

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

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

5. How many assistants did Stack have helping her with her study?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do people in the Flats involve others in their daily lives?

2. What is the communities' view of people who borrow things from others and don't lend things in return?

3. What was Stack trying to learn about the exchange system in the Flats?

4. How do those in the Flats cope with the lack of privacy?

5. How did Stack conduct the interviews that she personally handled?

6. How do people in the Flats feel about sacrificing what they have for their kin?

7. Why is temporary child exchange seen as a sign of trust?

8. What were the causes that the black community was fighting for?

9. What was Stack's first year in the Flats like?

10. How did most researchers find the subjects that they studied?

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