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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Catte states that in a "former life," (54) she had served in what position?
(a) A librarian.
(b) A social worker.
(c) A translator.
(d) A coal miner.

3. In what part of the United States is Appalachia located?
(a) Northern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Eastern.

4. What percentage of Appalachians identify as white?
(a) 90.
(b) 60.
(c) 80.
(d) 70.

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) 1951.
(b) 1941.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1979.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The film being made by Hugh O'Connor and his crew at the time of O'Connor's murder was slated to be shown at which venue?

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

4. Catte notes of the Hatfield-McCoy feud that "it was a real event that occurred in Appalachia at the turn of" (39) which century?

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

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