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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 template does Vance use to present his picture of Appalachia?
(a) The Hatfield-McCoy feud.
(b) His own harrowing childhood.
(c) The film Deliverance.
(d) The Civil War.

2. 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) Louisville.
(c) Covington.
(d) Lexington.

3. How many objectives does Catte name for her nonfiction work What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

4. The filmmaker Colin Low is quoted as stating that "A camera is like" (58) what object?
(a) A gun.
(b) A sword.
(c) An eraser.
(d) A time machine.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose voices are often excluded from conversations about Appalachia in the media, according to Catte?

3. What website "began running predictions that treated Appalachia as one very large state" (35) during the 2016 presidential campaign?

4. Around how many coal miners worked in Appalachia, as of the time of Catte's publication?

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

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