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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 did Ollie Combs endeavor to conduct a protest against her land being destroyed by bulldozers?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1985.

2. Much of Harry Caudil's advice to William Shockley in his second letter had to do with what aspect of the study?
(a) How to manipulate its results.
(b) How to market it for publication.
(c) How to mask its true cost.
(d) How to disguise its true nature.

3. Catte asserts that "the Mulloys and McSurelys were indeed attempting to help poor individuals in the mountains seize power from" (98) whom?
(a) People of color.
(b) The government.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) Land ownership.

4. In what year did the sheriff of Pike County, Kentucky order a raid on the home of community organizers Karen and Joseph Malloy?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1993.

5. Catte names an essay by which writer as "the most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) piece she has encountered?
(a) Carl Braden.
(b) Ezra Koenig.
(c) Kevin Baker.
(d) Jason Allen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arthur Rothstein was known for documenting the lives of those evicted from their homes as a result of what construction project?

2. Catte discusses which president's extensive campaigning within Appalachia as a factor in the negative portrayals of Appalachians?

3. In what year did Murray and Vance host a talk at the American Enterprise Institute?

4. Roger May is a friend of Catte who works as what type of artist?

5. Catte describes the Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People as what kind of organization?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. For what action was Carl Braden sentenced for the crime of sedition?

3. What fault does Catte find with the strategy of trying to ignore the implications of Hillbilly Elegy's success?

4. What connection does Catte make between Harry Caudill and William Shockley?

5. When Catte thinks about the destruction done to Appalachian land, of what types of images are her thoughts largely composed?

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

7. What is a goal Catte names as NOT being achieved by the War on Poverty?

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

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

10. What was the Whitesburg Conference?

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