View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Vance when his father gave him up for adoption?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

2. How old was Vance when he leapt off a dining room table pretending to be the Incredible Hulk?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. Where did Ken live when Vance lived with him?
(a) Jackson, Kentucky.
(b) Middletown, Ohio.
(c) Miamisburg, Ohio.
(d) Cincinnati, Ohio.

4. Where did Vance get his first job while in high school?
(a) Piggly Wiggly grocery store.
(b) Dillman's grocery store.
(c) Jackson's grocery store.
(d) Anderson's grocery store.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1970, what percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty rates above ten percent, according to Vance in Chapter 4?

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

4. In what year did ABC News run a report about Appalachian America, highlighting the problem with "Mountain Dew mouth"?

5. What does Vance describe Papaw teaching him to do during his childhood in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Vance describe his youth while living in Middletown with his mother, sister, and stepfather in Chapter 5?

2. How does Vance describe the setting of Middletown when he was born in Chapter 4?

3. How did Vance's mother respond when he refused to move in with her and Matt?

4. How does Vance describe the differences between Ohio and Kentucky that Mamaw and Papaw encountered after they moved?

5. What does "family loyalty" mean to Vance?

6. What factors led to the lack of ambition in the residents of Middletown, according to Vance in Chapter 4?

7. What were the circumstances of Mamaw and Papaw's move to Ohio?

8. What led to the migration of hillbillies from Appalachia to the Rust Belt?

9. What actions led to Vance's mother's arrest for abuse, according to the narrative in Chapter 5?

10. What led to the economic decline of Middletown, Ohio?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 790 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample