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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 laments that the memoir Hillbilly Elegy is populated by men who take what action?
(a) Hate their culture.
(b) Embrace their powerlessness.
(c) Commit acts of violence.
(d) Shirk employment.

2. How many objectives does Catte name for her nonfiction work What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

3. Catte characterizes Hillbilly Elegy's portrayal of Appalachians in all but which of the following ways?
(a) Radical.
(b) Helpless.
(c) Degraded.
(d) Monolithic.

4. Catte asserts that all but which of the following citizens of Appalachia were left out of Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Environmentalists.
(b) People of color.
(c) Young people.
(d) Conservatives.

5. What attitude are the coal companies said to have exhibited toward organized labor unions?
(a) Reluctant tolerance.
(b) Violent hysteria.
(c) Cunning strategy.
(d) Strong hatred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte states that in a "former life," (54) she had served in what position?

2. Catte states that what cause "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44) in a particular state?

3. What website "began running predictions that treated Appalachia as one very large state" (35) during the 2016 presidential campaign?

4. What phrase does Catte use to name the nonfiction genre associated with John Saward's essay in Vanity Fair?

5. In April of 2019, filmmakers in what state "hosted the fourth Appalachian Queer Film Festival" (51)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Hillbilly Elegy?

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

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

6. For what purpose does Catte discuss the town of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee not far from her home?

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

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

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

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

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