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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The saboteurs who ambushed the Round Mountain Coal Company inflicted just under how many dollars in damage?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 7 million.
(c) 11 million.
(d) 30 million.

2. Huey Perry is described by Catte as leading a funeral procession composed of how many cars?
(a) 100.
(b) 500.
(c) 30.
(d) 80.

3. The young women who testified in court that they had seen bulldozers destroy a family graveyard lived in what area of their state?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Western.
(c) Northern.
(d) Southern.

4. Roger May is a friend of Catte who works as what type of artist?
(a) A dancer.
(b) A painter.
(c) A filmmaker.
(d) A photographer.

5. Myles Horton was "a labor and civil rights activist" (98) from what state?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1974, William Shockley was openly advocating for what treatment of those he termed "genetically unfit" (85)?

2. Linda Tate is an Appalachian author who "tells of the re-discovery" (90) of what kind of roots?

3. In what year did private detectives hired by the owners of the Paint Creek mine terrorize the families of the workers in a particular state?

4. In what year was The Moynihan Report published?

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

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