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

2. In what year did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Tennessee.

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

4. Catte states that Appalachians and their culture "are often relegated to" (9) what?
(a) The past.
(b) The South.
(c) The Midwest.
(d) The land of pariahs.

5. The "most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) essay Catte has encountered was published in what year?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2017.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what year did Harry Caudill pass away?

4. The young women who testified in court that they had seen bulldozers destroy a family graveyard lived in what area of their state?

5. The Moynihan Report was written by what type of scientist working for the United States government?

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