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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did Murray and Vance host a talk at the American Enterprise Institute?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1967.
(d) 2016.

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

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

5. Roger May is a friend of Catte who works as what type of artist?
(a) A photographer.
(b) A filmmaker.
(c) A painter.
(d) A dancer.

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

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

8. William Shockley claimed that his research led him to what conclude that African Americans were predisposed for what characteristic?
(a) Reduced fertility.
(b) Reduced life spans.
(c) Low intelligence.
(d) Increased rates of heart disease.

9. Huey Perry is described by Catte as leading a funeral procession composed of how many cars?
(a) 500.
(b) 30.
(c) 100.
(d) 80.

10. Carl Braden was sentenced to what length of time for sedition against the government?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 35 years.

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

12. On what holiday does Catte portray Ollie Combs as eating alone in her jail cell?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) Labor Day.
(c) Easter.
(d) Christmas.

13. Ollie Combs was how old when she protested against the destruction of her land?
(a) 89.
(b) 39.
(c) 66.
(d) 54.

14. Bill Strode worked for what newspaper when he was arrested for documenting a protester's actions?
(a) The Courier-Times.
(b) The Stanford-Gazette.
(c) The Charlottesville-Patriot.
(d) The Courier-Journal.

15. Linda Tate is an Appalachian author who "tells of the re-discovery" (90) of what kind of roots?
(a) Her French-Canadian roots.
(b) Her Iroquois roots.
(c) Her Cherokee roots.
(d) Her Welsh roots.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had "over fifty millionaires" (101)?

2. What book argued that people living in impoverished areas were "less evolved" (76) than other people?

3. Catte names what "language" as one that Appalachians often "inject into [their] work" (98)?

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

5. In what year did four masked men attack the night watchman employed by the Round Mountain Coal Company?

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