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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Huey Perry was instrumental in "directing community action groups in the poorest parts of" (103) what state?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Alabama.

2. Catte discusses which president's extensive campaigning within Appalachia as a factor in the negative portrayals of Appalachians?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

3. In what year did Dan Gibson use "armed resistance to route bulldozers off his family land" (100)?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1965.

4. William Shockley was what kind of scientist who practiced his research in the United States?
(a) A biologist.
(b) A sociologist.
(c) A physicist.
(d) A geneticist.

5. According to Catte, what was the subject of the talk between Murray and Vance at the American Enterprise Institute?
(a) Education reform.
(b) The decline of the middle class.
(c) The decline of the white working class.
(d) Welfare reform.

6. In what year did four masked men attack the night watchman employed by the Round Mountain Coal Company?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1980.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1968.

7. William Shockley worked as a scientist at what institution when he emerged as a leader within a particular movement?
(a) Yale University.
(b) The United States Department of Agriculture.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Harvard College.

8. The young women who testified in court that they had seen bulldozers destroy a family graveyard lived in what area of their state?
(a) Northern.
(b) Western.
(c) Southern.
(d) Eastern.

9. Harry Caudil's work focused on which group of people within Appalachia?
(a) Poor whites.
(b) Poor Latin Americans.
(c) Poor African Americans.
(d) Orphans.

10. In what decade were Harry Caudil's works about Appalachia published?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1920s.
(d) The 1890s.

11. The saboteurs who ambushed the Round Mountain Coal Company inflicted just under how many dollars in damage?
(a) 7 million.
(b) 30 million.
(c) 11 million.
(d) 1 million.

12. In what year did Harry Caudill pass away?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1979.

13. Catte asserts that both Harry Caudill and William Shockley promoted the implementation of what practice all the way until their deaths?
(a) Agricultural laws.
(b) Eugenics.
(c) Indian boarding schools.
(d) Coal mining unions.

14. In what year did the sheriff of Pike County, Kentucky order a raid on the home of community organizers Karen and Joseph Malloy?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1972.

15. Both Murray and Vance are said to claim what ancestry?
(a) Welsh.
(b) Greek.
(c) Scots-Irish.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade was the FSA created in the United States?

2. In what county did Dan Gibson use "armed resistance to route bulldozers off his family land" (100)?

3. What work by Karl Marx was found in the raid on the home of Karen and Joseph Mulloy?

4. The FSA employed artists of what sort to document the lives of Appalachians?

5. In what year was The Moynihan Report published?

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