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

2. What war does Catte associate with "an indelible imprint" (10)?
(a) The War on Drugs.
(b) The War on Poverty.
(c) The War on Unions.
(d) The War on Youth.

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

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

5. Catte states that Appalachians and their culture "are often relegated to" (9) what?
(a) The land of pariahs.
(b) The South.
(c) The past.
(d) The Midwest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Around how many coal miners worked in Appalachia, as of the time of Catte's publication?

3. How many objectives does Catte name for her nonfiction work What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia?

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

5. Catte began cataloguing what two types of documents about the "Appalachia Problem" (8)?

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