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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Robert Payne was a disabled African American miner who acted as what official in the Disabled Miners and Widows organization?
(a) The president.
(b) The secretary.
(c) The vice president.
(d) The treasurer.

2. Myles Horton was "a labor and civil rights activist" (98) from what state?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Kentucky.

3. William Shockley claimed that his research led him to what conclude that African Americans were predisposed for what characteristic?
(a) Increased rates of heart disease.
(b) Reduced life spans.
(c) Reduced fertility.
(d) Low intelligence.

4. Catte describes the Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People as what kind of organization?
(a) Idealistic.
(b) Naive.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Grassroots.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The "most significant labor uprising in United States history" included around how many African American men and women?

2. What percentage of Appalachians identify as white?

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

4. Harry Caudill asserted throughout his life that Appalachians' purported "dependency had something to do with" (85) what?

5. Catte states that the Moynihan Report had been of little use to the United States government after which group of people denounced the report?

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