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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 97-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book argued that people living in impoverished areas were "less evolved" (76) than other people?
(a) Lamentable Folk.
(b) Hollow Folk.
(c) Degenerate Folk.
(d) Pitiful Folk.

2. What adjective does Catte use to describe the action Appalachians took "against corporate interests" (102)?
(a) Ineffective.
(b) Ingenious.
(c) Subversive.
(d) Radical.

3. By what decade had William Shockley "been largely disowned by the mainstream scientific community" (84)?
(a) The 1990s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1960s.

4. In what year did Murray and Vance host a talk at the American Enterprise Institute?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2016.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1967.

5. In what year did Ollie Combs endeavor to conduct a protest against her land being destroyed by bulldozers?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two ethnic groups are said to "have fueled more than half of Appalachia's population growth" (10)?

2. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had a population of "just 5,000 people, most of them poor" (101)?

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

4. Catte and her partner moved from one state to another how many months before the 2016 presidential election?

5. Charles Murray is described as having taken what action before later describing it as "a teenage prank" (88)?

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