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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Page 78-93.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What template does Vance use to present his picture of Appalachia?
(a) His own harrowing childhood.
(b) The film Deliverance.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The Hatfield-McCoy feud.

2. The Appalachian Regional Commission created a definition of Appalachia that included how many counties?
(a) 528,
(b) 320.
(c) 200.
(d) 420.

3. The "weeklong campaign during which miners fought valiantly against a private army" was called "The Battle of" (46) what?
(a) Mount Mitchell.
(b) Mount Constitution.
(c) Blair Mountain.
(d) Bison Mountain.

4. Harry Caudil's work focused on which group of people within Appalachia?
(a) Poor African Americans.
(b) Orphans.
(c) Poor Latin Americans.
(d) Poor whites.

5. The two instruments often associated with Appalachia are classified as what types of instruments?
(a) Woodwinds.
(b) Strings.
(c) Reeds.
(d) Percussion.

Short Answer Questions

1. The FSA employed artists of what sort to document the lives of Appalachians?

2. What book argued that people living in impoverished areas were "less evolved" (76) than other people?

3. Under which United States president's administration was the Farm Security Agency (FSA) formed?

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

5. In what Tennessee city close to Catte's home can tourists eat "feudin' fried chicken" at the "Hatfield-McCoy Dinner Show" (39)?

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