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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 97-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the organization that "publicized [William Shockley's] work in white nationalist circles" (88)?
(a) The Pioneer Fund.
(b) The Farmhand Fund.
(c) The Purity Fund.
(d) The Patriot Fund.

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

3. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had "over fifty millionaires" (101)?
(a) Broward.
(b) Knott.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Pike.

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

5. What adjective did T.C. Crawford use repeatedly to describe Appalachians within his book about Appalachia?
(a) Barbaric.
(b) Vacuous.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Savage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. William Shockley claimed that his research led him to what conclude that African Americans were predisposed for what characteristic?

3. Catte laments that the memoir Hillbilly Elegy is populated by men who take what action?

4. Catte describes the murder of the filmmaker Hugh O'Connor as O'Connor documented the lives of the miners in what Kentucky town?

5. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" a particular decade "focused exclusively on the region's" (58) what?

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