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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. Lewis Hine became known for documenting the lives of Appalachians living in what state?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Alabama.

2. Catte names what "language" as one that Appalachians often "inject into [their] work" (98)?
(a) Visual literacy.
(b) Music.
(c) Emotional intelligence.
(d) Poetic.

3. The bulldozers that destroyed Ollie Combs's land were sent by what kind of company?
(a) Oil.
(b) Transportation.
(c) Timber.
(d) Coal.

4. Harry Caudill sent William Shockley an encouraging letter in what year?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1974.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The National Review did NOT use what term to refer to the people of Appalachia?

2. In what state did Dan Gibson use "armed resistance to route bulldozers off his family land" (100)?

3. In what year did Murray and Vance host a talk at the American Enterprise Institute?

4. Under which United States president's administration was the Farm Security Agency (FSA) formed?

5. The Moynihan Report was billed as an inquiry into what aspect of African American life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the one anomaly within the group of images Catte conjures when she thinks about the destruction of Appalachian land?

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

3. What connection does Catte make between Communism and the civil rights movement?

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

5. Catte states that before 2016, "the last time the nation took such an obsessive interest in West Virginia's politics was" (77) on what occasion?

6. Describe the incident with Ollie Combs in 1965.

7. For what purpose does Catte draw a connection among William Shockley, Harry Caudill, and J.D. Vance?

8. What was the Moynihan Report?

9. What connection does Catte draw among William Shockley, Harry Caudill, and J.D. Vance?

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

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