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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 114-132.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Catte claims that Harry Caudil's work drew attention away from what other important cause?
(a) The Women's Suffrage movement.
(b) The Civil Rights movement.
(c) The Women's Liberation movement.
(d) The Gay Rights movement.

2. Catte confesses to the reader that the 2016 election results "caused setbacks" (52) for her in relation to retaining what quality?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Patience.
(c) Hope.
(d) Grace.

3. What percentage of Appalachians identify as white?
(a) 70.
(b) 90.
(c) 60.
(d) 80.

4. Under which U.S. president did the War on Poverty evolve, according to Catte?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Carter.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Kennedy.

5. In what year was Carl Braden arrested and convicted of sedition against the government for helping to purchase a home for an African American family?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1969.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte states that Appalachia has the same what as every other part of the United States?

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

3. Robert Payne was a disabled African American miner who acted as what official in the Disabled Miners and Widows organization?

4. As Catte lauds aspects of a particular piece of Jack E. Weller's work, she refers to this work using what term?

5. The Appalachian Land Study found that "In one county, for example, corporations that owned 70 percent of the land contributed" how many percent "of the county's property tax stream" (122)?

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