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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 39-77.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did private detectives hired by the owners of the Paint Creek mine terrorize the families of the workers in a particular state?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1899.

2. What is the only state entirely within Appalachia?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Virginia.

3. Catte states that Appalachia can be counted upon to be defined in what way?
(a) Contentiously.
(b) Proudly.
(c) Messily.
(d) Continually.

4. Catte disparages a Vanity Fair essay in which writer John Saward visits what state in order to "understand Donald Trump" (22)?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Kentucky.

5. Which two ethnic groups are said to "have fueled more than half of Appalachia's population growth" (10)?
(a) African American and Asian American individuals.
(b) African American and Central American individuals.
(c) African American and Hispanic individuals.
(d) African American and Native American individuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte concludes that media coverage of what disaster "naturalized many practices in Appalachia" (20)?

2. Approximately how many square miles make up the region of Appalachia?

3. The University of Chicago's S.S. MacClintock wrote about the Hatfield-McCoy feud in which journal?

4. Catte laments that the memoir Hillbilly Elegy is populated by men who take what action?

5. Bo Copley became a "coal country celebrity" (50) after a tense encounter with which politician?

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