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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the names of Mamaw's younger sisters?
(a) Marie and Anna.
(b) Betty and Rose.
(c) Sarah and Anne.
(d) Jenna and Opal.

2. Vance notes in his Introduction that William Julius Wilson, Charles Murray, and others have authored tracts demonstrating that upward mobility fell of in what decade in the U.S.?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1950s.

3. In what year was Vance born?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1984.

4. What musician does Vance describe Papaw listening to continuously on repeat in Chapter 7?
(a) Dr. Dre.
(b) Willie Nelson.
(c) Hank Williams, Jr.
(d) Johnny Cash.

5. What is the government program called that offers low-income residents a voucher to rent housing?
(a) Section 10.
(b) Section 8.
(c) Section 12.
(d) Section 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of her siblings did Mamaw ask for old golf clubs for Vance when he was learning to play?

2. What family operated a large paper mill in Middletown dating back to the nineteenth century?

3. What does Vance describe his grandmother convincing him to do for his mother in Chapter 9?

4. When does Vance describe the first wave of Scots-Irish immigrants landing in the New World in his Introduction?

5. In what grade in school was Vance when his grandmother forbade him to hang out with friends who were smoking weed?

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