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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1974, William Shockley was openly advocating for what treatment of those he termed "genetically unfit" (85)?
(a) Forcible relocation.
(b) Coercive sterilization.
(c) Trade program enrollment.
(d) Euthanasia.

2. Catte disparages a Vanity Fair essay in which writer John Saward visits what state in order to "understand Donald Trump" (22)?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Tennessee.

3. In what year did the sheriff of Pike County, Kentucky order a raid on the home of community organizers Karen and Joseph Malloy?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1967.

4. The saboteurs who ambushed the Round Mountain Coal Company inflicted just under how many dollars in damage?
(a) 7 million.
(b) 11 million.
(c) 30 million.
(d) 1 million.

5. Catte asserts that "Harvard University paid just $2.82 in annual property taxes on 11, 182 acres of land" (13) in what year?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1979.
(d) 2000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anne Braden attended the trial of which of her family members when he was accused of sedition?

2. What video game is said to contain a reference to the Hatfield-McCoy feud?

3. How many states contain Appalachian counties?

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

5. The "weeklong campaign during which miners fought valiantly against a private army" was called "The Battle of" (46) what?

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