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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Poor white Appalachians.
(b) Wealthy coal mine owners.
(c) Public school educators.
(d) Civil rights activists.

3. The Moynihan Report was written by what type of scientist working for the United States government?
(a) A biologist.
(b) A sociologist.
(c) A psychologist.
(d) An anthropologist.

4. Catte discusses which president's extensive campaigning within Appalachia as a factor in the negative portrayals of Appalachians?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Much of Harry Caudil's advice to William Shockley in his second letter had to do with what aspect of the study?

3. Catte asserts that prior to 2016, the last time Appalachia garnered the attention of the rest of the country was in what decade?

4. Catte characterizes Hillbilly Elegy's portrayal of Appalachians in all but which of the following ways?

5. Catte describes the murder of the filmmaker Hugh O'Connor as O'Connor documented the lives of the miners in what Kentucky town?

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