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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective does Catte use to describe the action Appalachians took "against corporate interests" (102)?
(a) Radical.
(b) Ingenious.
(c) Ineffective.
(d) Subversive.

2. Catte asserts that the "root of Appalachia's problems" (122) lies in what element's lengthy history in the region?
(a) Unchecked oppression.
(b) Unchecked poverty.
(c) Unchecked capitalism.
(d) Unchecked aggression.

3. Mountaintop removal is said to require "fewer" (116) what?
(a) Risks.
(b) Workers.
(c) Environmental impacts.
(d) Regulations.

4. In what year did Harry Caudill pass away?
(a) 1938.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1979.

5. Matewan is a film about what aspect of the Battle of Blair Mountain?
(a) The source.
(b) The aftermath.
(c) The economic effects.
(d) The prelude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What video game is said to contain a reference to the Hatfield-McCoy feud?

2. What is the name of the man who wrote Hillbilly Elegy?

3. In what year did Ollie Combs endeavor to conduct a protest against her land being destroyed by bulldozers?

4. The bulldozers that destroyed Ollie Combs's land were sent by what kind of company?

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

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