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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. Both Trump and what other candidate won Appalachia by a wide margin in the 2016 West Virginia primary?
(a) Rubio.
(b) Carson.
(c) Clinton.
(d) Sanders.

2. What percentage of Appalachians identify as white?
(a) 90.
(b) 70.
(c) 80.
(d) 60.

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

4. Hillbilly Elegy is classified as what type of literature?
(a) A collection of short stories.
(b) A novel.
(c) A memoir.
(d) Poetry.

5. Around how many coal miners worked in Appalachia, as of the time of Catte's publication?
(a) 36,000.
(b) 80,000.
(c) 54,000.
(d) 18,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is reported to be directing the film of Hillbilly Elegy?

3. The filmmaker Colin Low is quoted as stating that "A camera is like" (58) what object?

4. What claim does Catte make about the number "of towns in Appalachia without a visible African American or Latino community" (52)?

5. Catte states that Hillbilly Elegy is "currently at" (8) how many "weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What action is suggested as "making it easier to paint Appalachians as perpetual victims" (52) and why?

3. What evidence does Catte use to support her claim about the environmental problems in Texas?

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

5. What aspect of Texans' curiosity strikes Catte as ironic during her short residency in Texas?

6. What is Hillbilly Elegy?

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

8. In what way does Catte use the metaphor of a mirror to characterize the Appalachian identity?

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

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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