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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Page 78-93.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is reported to be directing the film of Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Ron Howard.
(b) Steven Spielberg.
(c) Spike Jonze.
(d) Charlie Kaufman.

3. About how many people live within the region of Appalachia?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 25 million.
(c) 50 million.
(d) 15 million.

4. Catte states that the Moynihan Report had been of little use to the United States government after which group of people denounced the report?
(a) Wealthy coal mine owners.
(b) Poor white Appalachians.
(c) Public school educators.
(d) Civil rights activists.

5. Whose voices are often excluded from conversations about Appalachia in the media, according to Catte?
(a) Children.
(b) People of color.
(c) Appalachians.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. The FSA employed artists of what sort to document the lives of Appalachians?

2. The "most significant labor uprising in United States history" included around how many African American men and women?

3. What adjective did T.C. Crawford use repeatedly to describe Appalachians within his book about Appalachia?

4. What claim does Catte make about the number "of towns in Appalachia without a visible African American or Latino community" (52)?

5. Catte states that Hillbilly Elegy is "currently at" (8) how many "weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list?

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