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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 were Ann's sisters names?

2. How old was Clover Greer when she had her first child?

3. How many houses away did Ruby and her mother move when they left her grandparents?

4. How long did Julia's second child's father work at the factory before getting laid off?

5. What was name of Clover's son?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Stack, How do relationships with kin complicate relationships with boyfriends or girlfriends?

2. According to Stack, how does joblessness impact relationships between men and women?

3. How is motherhood viewed in the Flats?

4. According to Stack, what role do fathers typically play in their child's life?

5. According to Stack, what role does respect play in a person having rights to another person's child?

6. According to Stack, how does a temporary child care situation become a permanent transfer of parental rights to the person watching the child?

7. What is the response in the black community to the difficulties that mothers in poverty have?

8. What is child keeping?

9. What happened when the AFDC learned of Magnolia's inheritance from her uncle?

10. What is the difference between essential kin and relatives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what Stack says about the stereotypes that were placed on blacks. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book discuss whether or not Stack was able to be accepted within the community.

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