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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what part of the United States is Appalachia located?
(a) Northern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Western.
(d) Southern.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of Appalachians identify as white?

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

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

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

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

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