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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under which United States president's administration was the Farm Security Agency (FSA) formed?
(a) Taft.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Truman.
(d) Eisenhower.

2. Catte claims that Harry Caudil's work drew attention away from what other important cause?
(a) The Women's Liberation movement.
(b) The Civil Rights movement.
(c) The Gay Rights movement.
(d) The Women's Suffrage movement.

3. Catte describes Judy Bonds as a grandmother who "became the face of" (98) what type of activism?
(a) Anti-fracking.
(b) Anti-erosion.
(c) Anti-mountaintop-removal.
(d) Anti-gold mining.

4. The "most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) essay Catte has encountered was published in what year?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2018.

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

6. Catte describes the Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People as what kind of organization?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Idealistic.
(c) Naive.
(d) Grassroots.

7. Harry Caudill sent William Shockley an encouraging letter in what year?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1954.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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 whirlpool.
(b) A sump pump.
(c) A vacuum.
(d) A siphon.

14. By 1974, William Shockley was openly advocating for what treatment of those he termed "genetically unfit" (85)?
(a) Trade program enrollment.
(b) Coercive sterilization.
(c) Forcible relocation.
(d) Euthanasia.

15. Catte makes the claim that "white Appalachians became persona non grata after" (83) what event?
(a) The failure of the War on Poverty.
(b) The success of the War on Poverty.
(c) The failure of Prohibition.
(d) The failure of The New Deal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did the sheriff of Pike County, Kentucky order a raid on the home of community organizers Karen and Joseph Malloy?

3. Catte asserts that prior to 2016, the last time Appalachia garnered the attention of the rest of the country was in what decade?

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

5. The bulldozers that destroyed Ollie Combs's land were sent by what kind of company?

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