What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia Test | Final Test - Medium

Elizabeth Catte
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What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia Test | Final Test - Medium

Elizabeth Catte
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Harry Caudill pass away?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1938.
(d) 2003.

2. Bill Strode worked for what newspaper when he was arrested for documenting a protester's actions?
(a) The Charlottesville-Patriot.
(b) The Courier-Journal.
(c) The Courier-Times.
(d) The Stanford-Gazette.

3. William Shockley was what kind of scientist who practiced his research in the United States?
(a) A biologist.
(b) A geneticist.
(c) A sociologist.
(d) A physicist.

4. Catte states that she does not "want Appalachia to be used as" what object "to suck attention away from LGBTQ politics and Black Lives Matter" (91)?
(a) A whirlpool.
(b) A vacuum.
(c) A siphon.
(d) A sump pump.

5. Under which United States president's administration was the Farm Security Agency (FSA) formed?
(a) Truman.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Taft.
(d) Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Carl Braden arrested and convicted of sedition against the government for helping to purchase a home for an African American family?

2. The Moynihan Report was written by what type of scientist working for the United States government?

3. Catte names an essay by which writer as "the most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) piece she has encountered?

4. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had "over fifty millionaires" (101)?

5. The saboteurs who ambushed the Round Mountain Coal Company inflicted just under how many dollars in damage?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason were images of black Appalachians left out of exposes of regional poverty?

2. How did the War on Poverty allow white Americans to ignore the country's race relation problems?

3. What connection does Catte make between Harry Caudill and William Shockley?

4. What was the Whitesburg Conference?

5. What is a goal Catte names as NOT being achieved by the War on Poverty?

6. What qualities does Catte assert are shared by both J.D. Vance and Harry Caudill?

7. Describe the link between the War on Poverty and the rise of eugenics.

8. What advice does Catte provide for dealing with the Hillbilly Elegy zeitgeist, and what actions does Jillean McCommons add to that advice?

9. What fault does Catte find with the strategy of trying to ignore the implications of Hillbilly Elegy's success?

10. For what action was Carl Braden sentenced for the crime of sedition?

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