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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. How many registered voters resided within McDowell County during the 2016 presidential election?
(a) 12,847.
(b) 17,508.
(c) 3,486.
(d) 5,934.

5. The filmmaker Colin Low is quoted as stating that "A camera is like" (58) what object?
(a) A gun.
(b) A time machine.
(c) A sword.
(d) An eraser.

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

7. The University of Chicago's S.S. MacClintock wrote about the Hatfield-McCoy feud in which journal?
(a) American Journal of Criminal Law.
(b) American Journal of Cultural Anthropology.
(c) American Journal of Sociology.
(d) American Journal of Psychology.

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

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) 1979.
(b) 1951.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1941.

10. What is the name of the man who wrote Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Miles Vance.
(b) Evan Vance.
(c) John Vance.
(d) J.D. Vance.

11. Catte laments the tradition of "casting Appalachia as what kind of 'other America'" (8)?
(a) Illogical.
(b) Monolithic.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Backwards.

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

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

14. What county became the synonymous with the term "Trump Country," (32) according to Catte?
(a) McDowell.
(b) Carroll.
(c) Caroline.
(d) Charlotte.

15. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" a particular decade "focused exclusively on the region's" (58) what?
(a) Deprivation.
(b) Toxicity.
(c) Strength.
(d) Ancient history.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte states that Appalachia has the same what as every other part of the United States?

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

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

4. Bo Copley became a "coal country celebrity" (50) after a tense encounter with which politician?

5. Catte insists that people in power use the designation of otherness for Appalachia for what reason?

(see the answer keys)

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