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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Young women in what state testified in court that they had seen bulldozers "rip through a family cemetery" (100)?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Alabama.

2. Catte laments that the memoir Hillbilly Elegy is populated by men who take what action?
(a) Embrace their powerlessness.
(b) Commit acts of violence.
(c) Hate their culture.
(d) Shirk employment.

3. What percentage of Appalachians identify as white?
(a) 60.
(b) 80.
(c) 70.
(d) 90.

4. Hillbilly Elegy is classified as what type of literature?
(a) A collection of short stories.
(b) A memoir.
(c) Poetry.
(d) A novel.

5. What claim does Catte make about the number "of towns in Appalachia without a visible African American or Latino community" (52)?
(a) There are none.
(b) There are many.
(c) The number is growing.
(d) There are few.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The University of Chicago's S.S. MacClintock wrote about the Hatfield-McCoy feud in which journal?

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

4. In April of 2019, filmmakers in what state "hosted the fourth Appalachian Queer Film Festival" (51)?

5. In what part of the United States is Appalachia located?

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