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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue - Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who among his mother's love interests does Vance describe as a mid-life sufferer with an earring to prove it in Chapter 1?
(a) Chip.
(b) Steve.
(c) Jay.
(d) Bubba.

2. According to Vance in Chapter 1, most of the people in Jackson, Kentucky live in the mountains surrounding what highway?
(a) Highway 101.
(b) Highway 1.
(c) Highway 66.
(d) Highway 15.

3. Vance opens his Introduction by telling the reader that he finds the existence of the book itself to be what?
(a) Integral.
(b) Important.
(c) Absurd.
(d) Imminent.

4. To what region does Vance describe the Scots-Irish immigrants in America largely congregating?
(a) The Pacific Coast Mountain Range.
(b) The Rocky Mountain Range.
(c) The Mississippi Delta region.
(d) The Appalachian Mountain Range.

5. From what post-graduate institution did Vance graduate?
(a) Harvard Law School.
(b) NYU School of Acting.
(c) Yale Law School.
(d) Princeton Law School.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Vance grow up?

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.?

3. When did Vance's grandparents leave Jackson, Kentucky to move north?

4. What is the name of the author's grandfather?

5. What did Mamaw tell Vance that there was nothing lower than when he was growing up?

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