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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what Tennessee city close to Catte's home can tourists eat "feudin' fried chicken" at the "Hatfield-McCoy Dinner Show" (39)?
(a) Pigeon Forge.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Knoxville.
(d) Nashville.

2. During the week of battle between the private army and the mine workers, what phrase did the miners and their scouts use to identify their allies?
(a) Sixteen tons.
(b) I come creeping.
(c) Underground resistance.
(d) Workers' rights forever.

3. Catte states that Appalachia has the same what as every other part of the United States?
(a) Problems.
(b) Sources of pollution.
(c) Economic woes.
(d) Investments.

4. What county became the synonymous with the term "Trump Country," (32) according to Catte?
(a) McDowell.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Carroll.
(d) Charlotte.

5. Catte insists that people in power use the designation of otherness for Appalachia for what reason?
(a) For profit.
(b) For posterity.
(c) For entertainment.
(d) For research.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte describes the murder of the filmmaker Hugh O'Connor as O'Connor documented the lives of the miners in what Kentucky town?

2. What does Catte assert about the number of people "who know and celebrate a different Appalachia" (9)?

3. What video game is said to contain a reference to the Hatfield-McCoy feud?

4. To what state did Catte and her partner move when leaving Tennessee?

5. What template does Vance use to present his picture of Appalachia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Catte's choice of time marker in the introduction's first sentence a significant one?

2. What action does Catte say she hopes to take in response to living in "Trump Country" (52)?

3. In what decade was a government-funded visual archive of Appalachia created and what was its central focus?

4. What distinction does Catte make between empathy and solidarity?

5. Who was T.C. Crawford and how did he color the rest of America's perceptions about Appalachia?

6. List the problems in the Appalachian region, according to Catte.

7. Provide the facts of the most basic interpretation of the Hatfield-McCoy feud.

8. What are Catte's "less clinical" (8) reasons for moving back to Appalachia after a short time in Texas?

9. What is the significance of the term "Murderland" (40) when used by T.C. Crawford?

10. How many states are numbered among the region of Appalachia and which state is the only one to fall wholly within the region?

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