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

2. Who is reported to be directing the film of Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Steven Spielberg.
(b) Charlie Kaufman.
(c) Ron Howard.
(d) Spike Jonze.

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

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

5. Catte notes of the Hatfield-McCoy feud that "it was a real event that occurred in Appalachia at the turn of" (39) which century?
(a) 18th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 21st.
(d) 20th.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state is a particular cause said to be "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44)?

2. The two instruments often associated with Appalachia are classified as what types of instruments?

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

4. What kind of Darwinism posited a link between privilege and innate superiority?

5. What did T.C. Crawford dub Appalachia within his book about the region?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 are Catte's two objectives within What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. What distinction does Catte make between empathy and solidarity?

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

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