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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 39-77.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what state did private detectives hired by a negotiating coal company terrorize women and children with machine gun fire?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Kentucky.

2. The filmmaker Colin Low is quoted as stating that "A camera is like" (58) what object?
(a) A sword.
(b) A gun.
(c) An eraser.
(d) A time machine.

3. Catte finds the most fault with which element of Vance's public persona during the book tour for Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Ulterior motives.
(b) Deception.
(c) Humility.
(d) Self-hatred.

4. Catte states that Appalachia has the same what as every other part of the United States?
(a) Investments.
(b) Sources of pollution.
(c) Economic woes.
(d) Problems.

5. Catte began cataloguing what two types of documents about the "Appalachia Problem" (8)?
(a) Land covenants and interviews.
(b) Census forms and essays.
(c) Letters and land covenants.
(d) Interviews and essays.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many people live within the region of Appalachia?

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

3. Catte laments the tradition of "casting Appalachia as what kind of 'other America'" (8)?

4. In what year did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?

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

(see the answer key)

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