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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Swapping.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are 63% of the black citizens in Jackson Harbor employed as?
(a) Caretakers.
(b) Service workers.
(c) Maintenance workers.
(d) Teachers.

2. What is Leo Jackson's job?
(a) Hod carrier.
(b) Construction worker.
(c) Janitor.
(d) Truck driver.

3. How many years did Stack live in the Flats?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

4. How much money did the AFDC send Ruby to get a new couch?
(a) $30.
(b) $50.
(c) $40.
(d) $20.

5. Why did those in the Flats need cooperative support?
(a) To gain kin.
(b) To help each other.
(c) To make life easier.
(d) To survive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a symbol of trust in the Flats?

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

3. Who says that the culture of poverty is political in nature?

4. Who wrote "Tomorrow's Tomorrow"?

5. What is a family with both a mother and father called?

(see the answer key)

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