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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the man who wrote Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Miles Vance.
(b) Evan Vance.
(c) J.D. Vance.
(d) John Vance.

2. What claim does Catte make about the number "of towns in Appalachia without a visible African American or Latino community" (52)?
(a) There are few.
(b) The number is growing.
(c) There are none.
(d) There are many.

3. In what year did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Alabama.

4. Catte states that Hillbilly Elegy is "currently at" (8) how many "weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list?
(a) 50.
(b) 20.
(c) 90.
(d) 10.

5. In what state is a particular cause said to be "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44)?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voices are often excluded from conversations about Appalachia in the media, according to Catte?

2. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" what decade "focused exclusively on" (58) a particular quality of Appalachia?

3. What phrase does Catte use to name the nonfiction genre associated with John Saward's essay in Vanity Fair?

4. What is the only state entirely within Appalachia?

5. Catte finds the most fault with which element of Vance's public persona during the book tour for Hillbilly Elegy?

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