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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does William Ryan say causes the deterioration of most black families?

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

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

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

5. How many years had the Jacksons been in the Flats when Stack met them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the communities' view of people who borrow things from others and don't lend things in return?

4. How do those in the Flats cope with the lack of privacy?

5. What is the Jackson families' economic situation like?

6. What was Stack trying to learn about the exchange system in the Flats?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from "All Our Kin" discuss whether it is possible for those in the Flats to change their society from within.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what Stack says about how "pigeonholing" black families into white ideals affects how they are viewed? Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Stack's study was much different than other studies conducted in the Flats. Discuss why her research methods were so much different.

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