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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 "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" a particular decade "focused exclusively on the region's" (58) what?
(a) Deprivation.
(b) Strength.
(c) Ancient history.
(d) Toxicity.

2. Under which U.S. president did the War on Poverty evolve, according to Catte?
(a) Carter.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Johnson.

3. What attitude are the coal companies said to have exhibited toward organized labor unions?
(a) Reluctant tolerance.
(b) Cunning strategy.
(c) Strong hatred.
(d) Violent hysteria.

4. Approximately how many square miles make up the region of Appalachia?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 700,000.
(c) 75,000.
(d) 3 million.

5. How many states contain Appalachian counties?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 13.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. Catte asserts that all but which of the following citizens of Appalachia were left out of Hillbilly Elegy?

5. Catte concludes that media coverage of what disaster "naturalized many practices in Appalachia" (20)?

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