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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. What does Stack call the inability to understand and research?
(a) Incapacity.
(b) Failure to understand.
(c) Neo-colonialism.
(d) Lack of ability.

2. How many assistants did Stack have helping her with her study?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

3. Why did Ruby Banks feel an obligation to always swap with her mother?
(a) Because her mother is elderly.
(b) Because her mother is needy.
(c) Because she is family.
(d) Because it is her duty.

4. What is Viola Jackson's job?
(a) Nanny.
(b) Cook.
(c) Janitor.
(d) Maid.

5. According to the US Census, what percent of white deaths in 1965 were caused by diseases of infancy?
(a) 4.6
(b) 8.5.
(c) 1.3.
(d) 6.4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of jobs are typically available to those in the Flats?

2. What is the Jackson family's average income?

3. What are 63% of the black citizens in Jackson Harbor employed as?

4. Why did Stack change names and locations in the book?

5. How does the US Census classify Jackson Harbor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Stack's purpose in writing this book?

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

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

6. How were nicknames developed in the Flats?

7. How did Stack conduct the interviews that she personally handled?

8. What were the causes that the black community was fighting for?

9. What types of things do those in the Flats swap?

10. How do people in the Flats involve others in their daily lives?

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