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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In April of 2019, filmmakers in what state "hosted the fourth Appalachian Queer Film Festival" (51)?
(a) Alabama.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Tennessee.

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

3. What war does Catte associate with "an indelible imprint" (10)?
(a) The War on Youth.
(b) The War on Drugs.
(c) The War on Poverty.
(d) The War on Unions.

4. Catte states that Appalachia can be counted upon to be defined in what way?
(a) Messily.
(b) Proudly.
(c) Contentiously.
(d) Continually.

5. Catte describes the murder of the filmmaker Hugh O'Connor as O'Connor documented the lives of the miners in what Kentucky town?
(a) Covington.
(b) Jeremiah.
(c) Louisville.
(d) Lexington.

6. What template does Vance use to present his picture of Appalachia?
(a) The film Deliverance.
(b) The Hatfield-McCoy feud.
(c) His own harrowing childhood.
(d) The Civil War.

7. What percentage of McDowell county residents voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election?
(a) 89.
(b) 46.
(c) 79.
(d) 27.

8. Catte characterizes Hillbilly Elegy's portrayal of Appalachians in all but which of the following ways?
(a) Helpless.
(b) Monolithic.
(c) Degraded.
(d) Radical.

9. How many objectives does Catte name for her nonfiction work What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

10. Both Trump and what other candidate won Appalachia by a wide margin in the 2016 West Virginia primary?
(a) Clinton.
(b) Rubio.
(c) Carson.
(d) Sanders.

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

12. Catte asserts that all but which of the following citizens of Appalachia were left out of Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Environmentalists.
(b) Young people.
(c) Conservatives.
(d) People of color.

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

14. Around how many coal miners worked in Appalachia, as of the time of Catte's publication?
(a) 18,000.
(b) 36,000.
(c) 54,000.
(d) 80,000.

15. Which two ethnic groups are said to "have fueled more than half of Appalachia's population growth" (10)?
(a) African American and Hispanic individuals.
(b) African American and Central American individuals.
(c) African American and Native American individuals.
(d) African American and Asian American individuals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many states contain Appalachian counties?

3. Catte states that in a "former life," (54) she had served in what position?

4. The film being made by Hugh O'Connor and his crew at the time of O'Connor's murder was slated to be shown at which venue?

5. Catte states that what cause "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44) in a particular state?

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