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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many dollars did Hugh O'Connor pay the young miner for the use of the miner's image?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

2. Catte disparages a Vanity Fair essay in which writer John Saward visits what state in order to "understand Donald Trump" (22)?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Mississippi.

3. What claim does Catte make about the number "of towns in Appalachia without a visible African American or Latino community" (52)?
(a) There are many.
(b) There are none.
(c) The number is growing.
(d) There are few.

4. What percentage of McDowell county residents voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election?
(a) 79.
(b) 27.
(c) 46.
(d) 89.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The "most significant labor uprising in United States history" included around how many African American men and women?

2. Bo Copley became a "coal country celebrity" (50) after a tense encounter with which politician?

3. The two instruments often associated with Appalachia are classified as what types of instruments?

4. What website "began running predictions that treated Appalachia as one very large state" (35) during the 2016 presidential campaign?

5. What percentage of Appalachians identify as white?

(see the answer key)

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