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

2. How often did kin exchange items and services?
(a) Daily, sometimes hourly.
(b) Yearly.
(c) Weekly.
(d) Monthly.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kin did people in the Flats feel most obligated to?

2. What was the main goal of the black activist organization in the Flats?

3. How did Stack protect the identities of those she interviewed?

4. How many other researchers had conducted studies in the Flats during the decade in which Stack conducted her study?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of things do those in the Flats swap?

2. Why does swapping play such an important role in the Flats?

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

4. What is day-to-day life like in the Jackson household?

5. How did Stack define family in the Flats?

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

7. Why is it argued that the economic model of the US is dependent on low-skilled and low-wage workers?

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

9. Why do people in the Flats say, "you have to have help from everybody and anybody"?

10. How is swapping among family members different than casual swapping among people who are not kin?

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