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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 do those being studied in a community usually view a researcher?
(a) As family.
(b) As a teacher.
(c) As a friend.
(d) As an outsider.

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

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

4. What percentage of Jackson Harbor's population is black?
(a) 15.
(b) 18.
(c) 7.
(d) 12.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were welfare benefits designed to help?

2. According to Stack, what do most studies of black families compare themselves to?

3. Who did residents of the Flats refer to by their surnames?

4. How many years did Stack live in the Flats?

5. Who wrote "Tomorrow's Tomorrow"?

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. How did bias affect Stack's study?

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

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

6. What is the Jackson families' economic situation like?

7. What types of questions did Stack develop for her assistants to ask?

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

9. What types of people did Stack focus her study on?

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

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