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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what state did Catte and her partner move when leaving Tennessee?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Texas.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) West Virginia.

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

3. Around how many coal miners worked in Appalachia, as of the time of Catte's publication?
(a) 54,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 36,000.
(d) 18,000.

4. Catte laments the tradition of "casting Appalachia as what kind of 'other America'" (8)?
(a) Monolithic.
(b) Progressive.
(c) Backwards.
(d) Illogical.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte describes the murder of the filmmaker Hugh O'Connor as O'Connor documented the lives of the miners in what Kentucky town?

2. Catte states that what cause "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44) in a particular state?

3. In what year did private detectives hired by the owners of the Paint Creek mine terrorize the families of the workers in a particular state?

4. Catte states that Appalachia can be counted upon to be defined in what way?

5. Hillbilly Elegy is classified as what type of literature?

(see the answer key)

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