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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Alabama.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

2. In what year did Murray and Vance host a talk at the American Enterprise Institute?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1967.
(c) 2016.
(d) 1989.

3. How many objectives does Catte name for her nonfiction work What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

4. Harry Caudill asserted throughout his life that Appalachians' purported "dependency had something to do with" (85) what?
(a) Their lack of educational opportunities.
(b) Their climate.
(c) Their poverty.
(d) Their defective genes.

5. Catte states that the Moynihan Report had been of little use to the United States government after which group of people denounced the report?
(a) Poor white Appalachians.
(b) Civil rights activists.
(c) Wealthy coal mine owners.
(d) Public school educators.

Short Answer Questions

1. The University of Chicago's S.S. MacClintock wrote about the Hatfield-McCoy feud in which journal?

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

3. What percentage of McDowell county residents voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election?

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

5. In what year were convictions of several members of the Hatfield and McCoy families secured?

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