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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what part of the United States is Appalachia located?
(a) Northern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Western.

2. Catte names an essay by which writer as "the most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) piece she has encountered?
(a) Kevin Baker.
(b) Ezra Koenig.
(c) Jason Allen.
(d) Carl Braden.

3. In what year did Harry Caudill pass away?
(a) 1990.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1979.

4. According to Catte, what was the subject of the talk between Murray and Vance at the American Enterprise Institute?
(a) The decline of the white working class.
(b) The decline of the middle class.
(c) Welfare reform.
(d) Education reform.

5. What website "began running predictions that treated Appalachia as one very large state" (35) during the 2016 presidential campaign?
(a) Daily Mirror.
(b) Daily Mail.
(c) Consequence of Sound.
(d) Daily Kos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carl Braden was sentenced to what length of time for sedition against the government?

2. What was the name of the organization that "publicized [William Shockley's] work in white nationalist circles" (88)?

3. Catte laments that the memoir Hillbilly Elegy is populated by men who take what action?

4. Catte insists that people in power use the designation of otherness for Appalachia for what reason?

5. In what state capital did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?

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