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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the week of battle between the private army and the mine workers, what phrase did the miners and their scouts use to identify their allies?
(a) Underground resistance.
(b) Sixteen tons.
(c) I come creeping.
(d) Workers' rights forever.

2. William Shockley was what kind of scientist who practiced his research in the United States?
(a) A geneticist.
(b) A biologist.
(c) A physicist.
(d) A sociologist.

3. In what state capital did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Knoxville.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Montgomery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voices are often excluded from conversations about Appalachia in the media, according to Catte?

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

3. Harry Caudill sent William Shockley an encouraging letter in what year?

4. In what year did Murray and Vance host a talk at the American Enterprise Institute?

5. The "most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) essay Catte has encountered was published in what year?

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