View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Leo Jackson's job?

2. What does AFDC stand for?

3. What did Ruby do with the rest of the AFDC money?

4. Who did Stack want to establish contact with?

5. How long did it take for Magnolia and Calvin Waters inheritance to be spent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How do people in the Flats feel about sacrificing what they have for their kin?

8. What is health care like in the Flats?

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

10. What types of questions did Stack develop for her assistants to ask?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Parental roles in the Flats can extend to many people beyond the natural mother and father. Discuss how the parental roles are determined and who can hold these roles.

Essay Topic 2

What does Stack say is the conflict between having a black identity and trying to live the American dream?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the status of health care in the Flats when "All Our Kin" was written.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 769 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample