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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. Where did the Waters family live before moving to the Flats?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) South Carolina.

2. What did those in the Flats usually call trading?
(a) Lending.
(b) Borrowing.
(c) Swapping.
(d) Bartering.

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

4. How many other researchers had conducted studies in the Flats during the decade in which Stack conducted her study?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Stack come in contact with the families she studied?

2. How often did kin exchange items and services?

3. Why did Ruby Banks feel an obligation to always swap with her mother?

4. What percentage of Jackson Harbor's population is black?

5. What does the relationship of a researcher and his subjects resemble?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Stack feel that it was important to find average citizens of the Flats to study?

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

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

6. In the Flats many people do not seek treatment from a doctor, why is this?

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

8. What was Stack's housing situation like in the Flats?

9. How did Stack use her assistants to gather data?

10. How did bias affect Stack's study?

(see the answer keys)

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