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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 claim does Catte make about the number "of towns in Appalachia without a visible African American or Latino community" (52)?
(a) There are many.
(b) There are none.
(c) The number is growing.
(d) There are few.

2. Young women in what state testified in court that they had seen bulldozers "rip through a family cemetery" (100)?
(a) Alabama.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Mississippi.

3. The FSA was created in an attempt to combat what social ill?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Malnutrition.

4. What work by Karl Marx was found in the raid on the home of Karen and Joseph Mulloy?
(a) Das Kapital.
(b) The Communist Manifesto.
(c) On the Civil War in France.
(d) The Wealth of Nations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did T.C. Crawford dub Appalachia within his book about the region?

2. By what decade had William Shockley "been largely disowned by the mainstream scientific community" (84)?

3. In what year was The Moynihan Report published?

4. The filmmaker Colin Low is quoted as stating that "A camera is like" (58) what object?

5. Catte describes Judy Bonds as a grandmother who "became the face of" (98) what type of activism?

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