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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. According to Stack, what do most studies of black families compare themselves to?
(a) Their past culture.
(b) The status quo.
(c) White families.
(d) Mainstream society.

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

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

4. Who wrote "Tomorrow's Tomorrow"?
(a) Elliot Stickler.
(b) Joyce Ladner.
(c) John Adams.
(d) Carol Stack.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another term for welfare?

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

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

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

5. How often did kin exchange items and services?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Stack want to learn about the families that she studied?

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

5. How did most researchers find the subjects that they studied?

6. Why is it argued that the economic model of the US is dependent on low-skilled and low-wage workers?

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

8. Why were two black men in the community murdered by white policeman?

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

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

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