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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose voices are often excluded from conversations about Appalachia in the media, according to Catte?
(a) People of color.
(b) Women.
(c) Appalachians.
(d) Children.

2. Catte states that Appalachia has the same what as every other part of the United States?
(a) Problems.
(b) Sources of pollution.
(c) Economic woes.
(d) Investments.

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

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

5. In what year were convictions of several members of the Hatfield and McCoy families secured?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1689.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1989.

6. Catte states that Hillbilly Elegy is "currently at" (8) how many "weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list?
(a) 90.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

7. How many dollars did Hugh O'Connor pay the young miner for the use of the miner's image?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

8. Approximately how many square miles make up the region of Appalachia?
(a) 75,000.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 3 million.

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

10. In what state is a particular cause said to be "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44)?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Mississippi.

11. Catte began cataloguing what two types of documents about the "Appalachia Problem" (8)?
(a) Interviews and essays.
(b) Land covenants and interviews.
(c) Census forms and essays.
(d) Letters and land covenants.

12. The Appalachian Regional Commission created a definition of Appalachia that included how many counties?
(a) 320.
(b) 200.
(c) 528,
(d) 420.

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

14. Catte states that in a "former life," (54) she had served in what position?
(a) A librarian.
(b) A translator.
(c) A social worker.
(d) A coal miner.

15. What attitude are the coal companies said to have exhibited toward organized labor unions?
(a) Reluctant tolerance.
(b) Violent hysteria.
(c) Cunning strategy.
(d) Strong hatred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte confesses to the reader that the 2016 election results "caused setbacks" (52) for her in relation to retaining what quality?

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

3. How many registered voters resided within McDowell County during the 2016 presidential election?

4. Catte asserts that "Harvard University paid just $2.82 in annual property taxes on 11, 182 acres of land" (13) in what year?

5. Under which U.S. president did the War on Poverty evolve, according to Catte?

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