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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What website "began running predictions that treated Appalachia as one very large state" (35) during the 2016 presidential campaign?
(a) Consequence of Sound.
(b) Daily Kos.
(c) Daily Mirror.
(d) Daily Mail.

5. Catte insists that people in power use the designation of otherness for Appalachia for what reason?
(a) For research.
(b) For posterity.
(c) For profit.
(d) For entertainment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What war does Catte associate with "an indelible imprint" (10)?

2. Catte asserts that "Harvard University paid just $2.82 in annual property taxes on 11, 182 acres of land" (13) in what year?

3. Catte laments that the memoir Hillbilly Elegy is populated by men who take what action?

4. How many registered voters resided within McDowell County during the 2016 presidential election?

5. Catte laments the tradition of "casting Appalachia as what kind of 'other America'" (8)?

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