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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Catte makes the claim that "white Appalachians became persona non grata after" (83) what event?
(a) The failure of Prohibition.
(b) The failure of the War on Poverty.
(c) The success of the War on Poverty.
(d) The failure of The New Deal.

2. William Shockley claimed that his research led him to what conclude that African Americans were predisposed for what characteristic?
(a) Increased rates of heart disease.
(b) Reduced life spans.
(c) Low intelligence.
(d) Reduced fertility.

3. Robert Payne was a disabled African American miner who acted as what official in the Disabled Miners and Widows organization?
(a) The vice president.
(b) The treasurer.
(c) The president.
(d) The secretary.

4. On what holiday does Catte portray Ollie Combs as eating alone in her jail cell?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Labor Day.

5. Catte asserts that both Harry Caudill and William Shockley promoted the implementation of what practice all the way until their deaths?
(a) Coal mining unions.
(b) Eugenics.
(c) Indian boarding schools.
(d) Agricultural laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. The "most significant labor uprising in United States history" included around how many African American men and women?

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

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

4. Both Murray and Vance are said to claim what ancestry?

5. Catte states that when she imagines her region's history, she sees what objects?

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