View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did private detectives hired by the owners of the Paint Creek mine terrorize the families of the workers in a particular state?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1912.

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

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

4. The Appalachian Regional Commission created a definition of Appalachia that included how many counties?
(a) 320.
(b) 200.
(c) 420.
(d) 528,

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the only state entirely within Appalachia?

4. According to Catte, citizens of Appalachia often view their identity as what metaphorical object?

5. Catte insists that people in power use the designation of otherness for Appalachia for what reason?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,063 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample