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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Black Urban Poor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of jobs are typically available to those in the Flats?
(a) Long term.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Low paying.
(d) Unskilled.

2. What percent of blacks live in unfit housing according to the US Census?
(a) 15.
(b) 22.
(c) 13.
(d) 34.

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

4. What does the relationship of a researcher and his subjects resemble?
(a) Family.
(b) Oppressor and oppressed.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Teacher and student.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book "Method and Measurement in Sociology"?

2. In what decade did Stack begin her study?

3. What is the name of the girl that Stack became very close to in the Flats?

4. What causes the poor to create ways to cope with circumstances out of their control?

5. According to the US Census, what percent of white deaths in 1965 were caused by diseases of infancy?

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