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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 39-77.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two ethnic groups are said to "have fueled more than half of Appalachia's population growth" (10)?
(a) African American and Hispanic individuals.
(b) African American and Asian American individuals.
(c) African American and Native American individuals.
(d) African American and Central American individuals.

2. What percentage of McDowell county residents voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election?
(a) 27.
(b) 46.
(c) 89.
(d) 79.

3. Catte states that what cause "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44) in a particular state?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Civil disobedience.
(c) Women's suffrage.
(d) Labor agitation.

4. What phrase does Catte use to name the nonfiction genre associated with John Saward's essay in Vanity Fair?
(a) The Trump Oasis.
(b) Trump Country.
(c) The Trump Delusion.
(d) The Land of Trump.

5. 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) 1951.
(c) 1941.
(d) 2000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voices are often excluded from conversations about Appalachia in the media, according to Catte?

2. Catte describes the murder of the filmmaker Hugh O'Connor as O'Connor documented the lives of the miners in what Kentucky town?

3. The filmmaker Colin Low is quoted as stating that "A camera is like" (58) what object?

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

5. Bo Copley became a "coal country celebrity" (50) after a tense encounter with which politician?

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