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

2. The two instruments often associated with Appalachia are classified as what types of instruments?
(a) Reeds.
(b) Woodwinds.
(c) Strings.
(d) Percussion.

3. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" what decade "focused exclusively on" (58) a particular quality of Appalachia?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1980s.
(c) The 1940s.
(d) The 1930s.

4. How many states contain Appalachian counties?
(a) 7.
(b) 16.
(c) 5.
(d) 13.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Catte asserts that "Harvard University paid just $2.82 in annual property taxes on 11, 182 acres of land" (13) in what year?

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

4. Whose voices are often excluded from conversations about Appalachia in the media, according to Catte?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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 faults does Catte find with J.D. Vance outside of his authorship of Hillbilly Elegy?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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