View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did T.C. Crawford dub Appalachia within his book about the region?
(a) Wonderland.
(b) Wasteland.
(c) Hungerland.
(d) Murderland.

4. In what state is a particular cause said to be "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44)?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

5. In April of 2019, filmmakers in what state "hosted the fourth Appalachian Queer Film Festival" (51)?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state did private detectives hired by a negotiating coal company terrorize women and children with machine gun fire?

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

3. The "the most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) essay Catte has encountered was published in what publication?

4. Catte states that she does not "want Appalachia to be used as" what object "to suck attention away from LGBTQ politics and Black Lives Matter" (91)?

5. Catte asserts that prior to 2016, the last time Appalachia garnered the attention of the rest of the country was in what decade?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 218 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample