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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Catte finds the most fault with which element of Vance's public persona during the book tour for Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Ulterior motives.
(b) Humility.
(c) Self-hatred.
(d) Deception.

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

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

4. In what state did private detectives hired by a negotiating coal company terrorize women and children with machine gun fire?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) West Virginia.

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

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

7. 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 1893 World's Fair.
(b) The 1901 World's Fair.
(c) The 1968 World's Fair.
(d) The 1933 World's Fair.

8. 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) 1912.
(d) 1957.

9. 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) 1979.
(d) 1941.

10. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" what decade "focused exclusively on" (58) a particular quality of Appalachia?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1980s.
(c) The 1940s.
(d) The 1960s.

11. The "most significant labor uprising in United States history" included around how many African American men and women?
(a) 500.
(b) 200.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 3,000.

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

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

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

15. What adjective did T.C. Crawford use repeatedly to describe Appalachians within his book about Appalachia?
(a) Savage.
(b) Vacuous.
(c) Barbaric.
(d) Apathetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte concludes that media coverage of what disaster "naturalized many practices in Appalachia" (20)?

2. To what state did Catte and her partner move when leaving Tennessee?

3. Catte disparages a Vanity Fair essay in which writer John Saward visits what state in order to "understand Donald Trump" (22)?

4. How many objectives does Catte name for her nonfiction work What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia?

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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