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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 7-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What website "began running predictions that treated Appalachia as one very large state" (35) during the 2016 presidential campaign?
(a) Daily Kos.
(b) Daily Mail.
(c) Consequence of Sound.
(d) Daily Mirror.

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

3. Hillbilly Elegy is classified as what type of literature?
(a) Poetry.
(b) A collection of short stories.
(c) A novel.
(d) A memoir.

4. What template does Vance use to present his picture of Appalachia?
(a) The film Deliverance.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) His own harrowing childhood.
(d) The Hatfield-McCoy feud.

5. Catte characterizes Hillbilly Elegy's portrayal of Appalachians in all but which of the following ways?
(a) Helpless.
(b) Radical.
(c) Monolithic.
(d) Degraded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only state entirely within Appalachia?

2. Catte asserts that "Harvard University paid just $2.82 in annual property taxes on 11, 182 acres of land" (13) in what year?

3. In what part of the United States is Appalachia located?

4. Catte insists that people in power use the designation of otherness for Appalachia for what reason?

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

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