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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. Catte states that what cause "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44) in a particular state?
(a) Women's suffrage.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) Labor agitation.
(d) Civil disobedience.

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) Workers' rights forever.
(c) I come creeping.
(d) Underground resistance.

3. According to Catte, citizens of Appalachia often view their identity as what metaphorical object?
(a) A statue.
(b) A ball of string.
(c) A mirror.
(d) A weathered suitcase.

4. In what state did private detectives hired by a negotiating coal company terrorize women and children with machine gun fire?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte laments that the memoir Hillbilly Elegy is populated by men who take what action?

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

3. In what year did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss a particular critical point Catte makes about Hillbilly Elegy.

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

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

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

6. What does Catte mean when she names the "clinical" (7) reasons for her move out of Appalachia?

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

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

9. What is Hillbilly Elegy?

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

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