View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Catte assert about the number of people "who know and celebrate a different Appalachia" (9)?
(a) They are few.
(b) They are many.
(c) Their numbers are shrinking.
(d) Their numbers are growing.

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

5. Catte disparages a Vanity Fair essay in which writer John Saward visits what state in order to "understand Donald Trump" (22)?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. Catte characterizes Hillbilly Elegy's portrayal of Appalachians in all but which of the following ways?

5. What website "began running predictions that treated Appalachia as one very large state" (35) during the 2016 presidential campaign?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 216 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample