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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

2. What is the only state entirely within Appalachia?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Virginia.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

3. What attitude are the coal companies said to have exhibited toward organized labor unions?
(a) Reluctant tolerance.
(b) Violent hysteria.
(c) Strong hatred.
(d) Cunning strategy.

4. In what year were convictions of several members of the Hatfield and McCoy families secured?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1989.

5. What kind of Darwinism posited a link between privilege and innate superiority?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Social.
(c) Ethnocentric.
(d) Marxist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What video game is said to contain a reference to the Hatfield-McCoy feud?

2. The two instruments often associated with Appalachia are classified as what types of instruments?

3. The University of Chicago's S.S. MacClintock wrote about the Hatfield-McCoy feud in which journal?

4. What is the name of the man who wrote Hillbilly Elegy?

5. In what year did private detectives hired by the owners of the Paint Creek mine terrorize the families of the workers in a particular state?

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