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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 characterizes Hillbilly Elegy's portrayal of Appalachians in all but which of the following ways?
(a) Monolithic.
(b) Radical.
(c) Helpless.
(d) Degraded.

2. Catte began cataloguing what two types of documents about the "Appalachia Problem" (8)?
(a) Interviews and essays.
(b) Census forms and essays.
(c) Letters and land covenants.
(d) Land covenants and interviews.

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

4. The "weeklong campaign during which miners fought valiantly against a private army" was called "The Battle of" (46) what?
(a) Mount Mitchell.
(b) Blair Mountain.
(c) Bison Mountain.
(d) Mount Constitution.

5. According to Catte, citizens of Appalachia often view their identity as what metaphorical object?
(a) A weathered suitcase.
(b) A mirror.
(c) A ball of string.
(d) A statue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Catte assert about the number of people "who know and celebrate a different Appalachia" (9)?

2. 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?

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

4. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" a particular decade "focused exclusively on the region's" (58) what?

5. What phrase does Catte use to name the nonfiction genre associated with John Saward's essay in Vanity Fair?

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