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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Catte states that she does not "want Appalachia to be used as" what object "to suck attention away from LGBTQ politics and Black Lives Matter" (91)?
(a) A siphon.
(b) A whirlpool.
(c) A vacuum.
(d) A sump pump.

2. Anne Braden attended the trial of which of her family members when he was accused of sedition?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her husband.

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

4. In what year was The Moynihan Report published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1975.

5. In what year did William Shockley debate the African American psychiatrist Frances Cress Welsing (84)?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1932.

6. What book argued that people living in impoverished areas were "less evolved" (76) than other people?
(a) Lamentable Folk.
(b) Degenerate Folk.
(c) Hollow Folk.
(d) Pitiful Folk.

7. Catte asserts that prior to 2016, the last time Appalachia garnered the attention of the rest of the country was in what decade?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1930s.

8. What work by Karl Marx was found in the raid on the home of Karen and Joseph Mulloy?
(a) Das Kapital.
(b) The Communist Manifesto.
(c) On the Civil War in France.
(d) The Wealth of Nations.

9. The Moynihan Report was billed as an inquiry into what aspect of African American life?
(a) Religion.
(b) Violence.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Education.

10. In what year did Ollie Combs endeavor to conduct a protest against her land being destroyed by bulldozers?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1945.

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

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

13. Robert Payne was a disabled African American miner who acted as what official in the Disabled Miners and Widows organization?
(a) The treasurer.
(b) The president.
(c) The secretary.
(d) The vice president.

14. Myles Horton was "a labor and civil rights activist" (98) from what state?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) West Virginia.

15. Young women in what state testified in court that they had seen bulldozers "rip through a family cemetery" (100)?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had a population of "just 5,000 people, most of them poor" (101)?

2. The young women who testified in court that they had seen bulldozers destroy a family graveyard lived in what area of their state?

3. Catte asserts that both Harry Caudill and William Shockley promoted the implementation of what practice all the way until their deaths?

4. Catte describes the Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People as what kind of organization?

5. On what holiday does Catte portray Ollie Combs as eating alone in her jail cell?

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