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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 1970s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1930s.

3. Arthur Rothstein was known for documenting the lives of those evicted from their homes as a result of what construction project?
(a) A national park.
(b) A coal mine.
(c) A protected marshland.
(d) A zoo.

4. Lewis Hine became known for documenting the lives of Appalachians living in what state?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Alabama.

5. The FSA was created in an attempt to combat what social ill?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Divorce.
(d) Malnutrition.

6. The National Review did NOT use what term to refer to the people of Appalachia?
(a) Unemployed.
(b) Dependent.
(c) Addicted.
(d) Disenfranchised.

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

8. Catte names what "language" as one that Appalachians often "inject into [their] work" (98)?
(a) Emotional intelligence.
(b) Music.
(c) Poetic.
(d) Visual literacy.

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

10. What was the name of the organization that "publicized [William Shockley's] work in white nationalist circles" (88)?
(a) The Pioneer Fund.
(b) The Purity Fund.
(c) The Patriot Fund.
(d) The Farmhand Fund.

11. Catte names an essay by which writer as "the most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) piece she has encountered?
(a) Jason Allen.
(b) Ezra Koenig.
(c) Carl Braden.
(d) Kevin Baker.

12. In what decade was the FSA created in the United States?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1880s.

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

14. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had "over fifty millionaires" (101)?
(a) Broward.
(b) Pike.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Knott.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1974, William Shockley was openly advocating for what treatment of those he termed "genetically unfit" (85)?

2. Much of Harry Caudil's advice to William Shockley in his second letter had to do with what aspect of the study?

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

4. Carl Braden was sentenced to what length of time for sedition against the government?

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

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