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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did four masked men attack the night watchman employed by the Round Mountain Coal Company?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1980.

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

3. The National Review did NOT use what term to refer to the people of Appalachia?
(a) Dependent.
(b) Unemployed.
(c) Addicted.
(d) Disenfranchised.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many registered voters resided within McDowell County during the 2016 presidential election?

3. What kind of Darwinism posited a link between privilege and innate superiority?

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

5. Catte finds the most fault with which element of Vance's public persona during the book tour for Hillbilly Elegy?

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