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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Catte states that Appalachians and their culture "are often relegated to" (9) what?
(a) The Midwest.
(b) The past.
(c) The land of pariahs.
(d) The South.

3. To what state did Catte and her partner move when leaving Tennessee?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Texas.
(d) West Virginia.

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

5. In what year did private detectives hired by the owners of the Paint Creek mine terrorize the families of the workers in a particular state?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1912.

6. What phrase does Catte use to name the nonfiction genre associated with John Saward's essay in Vanity Fair?
(a) Trump Country.
(b) The Trump Delusion.
(c) The Land of Trump.
(d) The Trump Oasis.

7. The two instruments often associated with Appalachia are classified as what types of instruments?
(a) Strings.
(b) Percussion.
(c) Woodwinds.
(d) Reeds.

8. 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) There are few.
(d) The number is growing.

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

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

11. 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?
(a) The 1968 World's Fair.
(b) The 1901 World's Fair.
(c) The 1933 World's Fair.
(d) The 1893 World's Fair.

12. In what year was T.C. Crawford's book about Appalachia published?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1789.

13. Catte concludes that media coverage of what disaster "naturalized many practices in Appalachia" (20)?
(a) The Sago Mine disaster.
(b) The Ball Mine Disaster.
(c) The Cherry Mine Disaster.
(d) The Triangle Mine Disaster.

14. What is the only state entirely within Appalachia?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Virginia.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Catte finds the most fault with which element of Vance's public persona during the book tour for Hillbilly Elegy?

3. In what state is a particular cause said to be "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44)?

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

5. According to Catte, citizens of Appalachia often view their identity as what metaphorical object?

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