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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. In what part of the United States is Appalachia located?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Western.
(c) Southern.
(d) Northern.

2. Catte states that Hillbilly Elegy is "currently at" (8) how many "weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 50.
(d) 90.

3. About how many people live within the region of Appalachia?
(a) 50 million.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 15 million.
(d) 25 million.

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

5. What war does Catte associate with "an indelible imprint" (10)?
(a) The War on Unions.
(b) The War on Poverty.
(c) The War on Youth.
(d) The War on Drugs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year were convictions of several members of the Hatfield and McCoy families secured?

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

4. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" a particular decade "focused exclusively on the region's" (58) what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Hillbilly Elegy?

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

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

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

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

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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