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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 was the main goal of the black activist organization in the Flats?
(a) To protect the people of the community.
(b) To take care of the children.
(c) To prevent biased research studies.
(d) To prevent discrimination.

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

3. What parts of life in the Flats are completely intertwined?
(a) Family and social.
(b) Personal and professional.
(c) Economic and personal.
(d) Social and economic.

4. What was Julia's cousin's name?
(a) Mae.
(b) Sara.
(c) Magnolia.
(d) Maya.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many families was Stack introduced to in the beginning of her study?

2. What is Leo Jackson's job?

3. Who did Ruby trade corn bread and greens with so that she could get milk and diapers?

4. What does Stack call the inability to understand and research?

5. When did Stack's book on the migration of blacks to the north get published?

(see the answer key)

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