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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. Under which U.S. president did the War on Poverty evolve, according to Catte?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Carter.
(d) Kennedy.

2. In what year did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) West Virginia.

3. In what part of the United States is Appalachia located?
(a) Northern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Western.
(d) Southern.

4. Catte and her partner moved from one state to another how many months before the 2016 presidential election?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.

5. What website "began running predictions that treated Appalachia as one very large state" (35) during the 2016 presidential campaign?
(a) Daily Mirror.
(b) Daily Mail.
(c) Consequence of Sound.
(d) Daily Kos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man who wrote Hillbilly Elegy?

2. In what year were convictions of several members of the Hatfield and McCoy families secured?

3. Bo Copley became a "coal country celebrity" (50) after a tense encounter with which politician?

4. 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?

5. Hillbilly Elegy is classified as what type of literature?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What event does Elizabeth Catte use to mark the timing of her move out of Appalachia six months before a particular event?

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

7. In what manner does Catte claim that "Appalachian scholars and activists often prefer" (14) to view their relationships with citizens of other regions?

8. What strategy does Catte present as part of her plan of action for living in "Trump Country" (52) and what actions does she say she will refrain from taking?

9. What is Catte's main claim about the problems of the Appalachia region?

10. What is Hillbilly Elegy?

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