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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The filmmaker Colin Low is quoted as stating that "A camera is like" (58) what object?
(a) A sword.
(b) An eraser.
(c) A gun.
(d) A time machine.

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

3. Ollie Combs was how old when she protested against the destruction of her land?
(a) 54.
(b) 66.
(c) 89.
(d) 39.

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

5. Catte insists that people in power use the designation of otherness for Appalachia for what reason?
(a) For entertainment.
(b) For research.
(c) For profit.
(d) For posterity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Roger May is a friend of Catte who works as what type of artist?

2. In what county did Dan Gibson use "armed resistance to route bulldozers off his family land" (100)?

3. In what year did four masked men attack the night watchman employed by the Round Mountain Coal Company?

4. Catte notes of the Hatfield-McCoy feud that "it was a real event that occurred in Appalachia at the turn of" (39) which century?

5. By 1974, William Shockley was openly advocating for what treatment of those he termed "genetically unfit" (85)?

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