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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Catte asserts that all but which of the following citizens of Appalachia were left out of Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) People of color.
(b) Young people.
(c) Environmentalists.
(d) Conservatives.

2. Whose voices are often excluded from conversations about Appalachia in the media, according to Catte?
(a) Children.
(b) Appalachians.
(c) Women.
(d) People of color.

3. Catte concludes that media coverage of what disaster "naturalized many practices in Appalachia" (20)?
(a) The Ball Mine Disaster.
(b) The Cherry Mine Disaster.
(c) The Triangle Mine Disaster.
(d) The Sago Mine disaster.

4. Catte describes the murder of the filmmaker Hugh O'Connor as O'Connor documented the lives of the miners in what Kentucky town?
(a) Jeremiah.
(b) Covington.
(c) Louisville.
(d) Lexington.

5. What video game is said to contain a reference to the Hatfield-McCoy feud?
(a) Minecraft.
(b) Skyrim.
(c) Overwatch.
(d) World of Warcraft.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many dollars did Hugh O'Connor pay the young miner for the use of the miner's image?

2. In what state capital did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?

3. What did T.C. Crawford dub Appalachia within his book about the region?

4. What county became the synonymous with the term "Trump Country," (32) according to Catte?

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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