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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 characterizes Hillbilly Elegy's portrayal of Appalachians in all but which of the following ways?
(a) Radical.
(b) Monolithic.
(c) Degraded.
(d) Helpless.

2. In what year did William Shockley debate the African American psychiatrist Frances Cress Welsing (84)?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1932.

3. Catte began cataloguing what two types of documents about the "Appalachia Problem" (8)?
(a) Letters and land covenants.
(b) Census forms and essays.
(c) Land covenants and interviews.
(d) Interviews and essays.

4. What does Catte assert about the number of people "who know and celebrate a different Appalachia" (9)?
(a) Their numbers are shrinking.
(b) Their numbers are growing.
(c) They are few.
(d) They are many.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte states that Appalachians and their culture "are often relegated to" (9) what?

2. What percentage of Appalachians identify as white?

3. What was the name of the organization that "publicized [William Shockley's] work in white nationalist circles" (88)?

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

5. What is the name of the man who wrote Hillbilly Elegy?

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