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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 year was The Moynihan Report published?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1965.

2. Arthur Rothstein was known for documenting the lives of those evicted from their homes as a result of what construction project?
(a) A national park.
(b) A protected marshland.
(c) A zoo.
(d) A coal mine.

3. The FSA was created in an attempt to combat what social ill?
(a) Malnutrition.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Hunger.

4. Ollie Combs was how old when she protested against the destruction of her land?
(a) 66.
(b) 89.
(c) 54.
(d) 39.

5. In what decade were Harry Caudil's works about Appalachia published?
(a) The 1920s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1890s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did four masked men attack the night watchman employed by the Round Mountain Coal Company?

2. Charles Murray is described as having taken what action before later describing it as "a teenage prank" (88)?

3. Bill Strode worked for a newspaper based in what city when he was arrested for documenting a protester's actions?

4. The saboteurs who ambushed the Round Mountain Coal Company inflicted just under how many dollars in damage?

5. Bill Strode worked for what newspaper when he was arrested for documenting a protester's actions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What connection does Catte make between Communism and the civil rights movement?

2. What was the Whitesburg Conference?

3. What connection does Catte draw among William Shockley, Harry Caudill, and J.D. Vance?

4. How did the War on Poverty allow white Americans to ignore the country's race relation problems?

5. Catte states that before 2016, "the last time the nation took such an obsessive interest in West Virginia's politics was" (77) on what occasion?

6. What was the Moynihan Report?

7. What is the one anomaly within the group of images Catte conjures when she thinks about the destruction of Appalachian land?

8. What connection does Catte make between Appalachian writers and their use of the language of visual literacy?

9. What advice does Catte provide for dealing with the Hillbilly Elegy zeitgeist, and what actions does Jillean McCommons add to that advice?

10. Who was Harry Caudill and why is he significant to Catte's argument?

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