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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is reported to be directing the film of Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Spike Jonze.
(b) Steven Spielberg.
(c) Ron Howard.
(d) Charlie Kaufman.

2. What does Catte assert about the number of people "who know and celebrate a different Appalachia" (9)?
(a) Their numbers are shrinking.
(b) They are many.
(c) They are few.
(d) Their numbers are growing.

3. Both Trump and what other candidate won Appalachia by a wide margin in the 2016 West Virginia primary?
(a) Carson.
(b) Clinton.
(c) Sanders.
(d) Rubio.

4. The two instruments often associated with Appalachia are classified as what types of instruments?
(a) Reeds.
(b) Strings.
(c) Percussion.
(d) Woodwinds.

5. Hillbilly Elegy is classified as what type of literature?
(a) A novel.
(b) A memoir.
(c) Poetry.
(d) A collection of short stories.

6. Under which U.S. president did the War on Poverty evolve, according to Catte?
(a) Carter.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Johnson.

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

8. Bo Copley became a "coal country celebrity" (50) after a tense encounter with which politician?
(a) Donald Trump.
(b) Marco Rubio.
(c) Hillary Clinton.
(d) Ben Carson.

9. Catte states that what cause "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44) in a particular state?
(a) Women's suffrage.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) Labor agitation.
(d) Civil disobedience.

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

11. Catte began cataloguing what two types of documents about the "Appalachia Problem" (8)?
(a) Land covenants and interviews.
(b) Interviews and essays.
(c) Letters and land covenants.
(d) Census forms and essays.

12. Catte and her partner moved from one state to another how many months before the 2016 presidential election?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

13. Catte asserts that "Harvard University paid just $2.82 in annual property taxes on 11, 182 acres of land" (13) in what year?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1941.
(d) 2000.

14. What percentage of McDowell county residents voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election?
(a) 79.
(b) 27.
(c) 46.
(d) 89.

15. According to Catte, citizens of Appalachia often view their identity as what metaphorical object?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A statue.
(c) A weathered suitcase.
(d) A ball of string.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of Appalachians identify as white?

2. What attitude are the coal companies said to have exhibited toward organized labor unions?

3. What is the only state entirely within Appalachia?

4. Around how many coal miners worked in Appalachia, as of the time of Catte's publication?

5. The filmmaker Colin Low is quoted as stating that "A camera is like" (58) what object?

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