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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Catte and her partner moved from one state to another how many months before the 2016 presidential election?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

2. Catte asserts that "Harvard University paid just $2.82 in annual property taxes on 11, 182 acres of land" (13) in what year?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1951.
(d) 2000.

3. Catte states that Hillbilly Elegy is "currently at" (8) how many "weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list?
(a) 20.
(b) 50.
(c) 90.
(d) 10.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Catte, citizens of Appalachia often view their identity as what metaphorical object?

2. Which two ethnic groups are said to "have fueled more than half of Appalachia's population growth" (10)?

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

4. Catte concludes that media coverage of what disaster "naturalized many practices in Appalachia" (20)?

5. Catte disparages a Vanity Fair essay in which writer John Saward visits what state in order to "understand Donald Trump" (22)?

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