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

2. In what state did Dan Gibson use "armed resistance to route bulldozers off his family land" (100)?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Kentucky.

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

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) 1993.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1972.

5. The "the most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) essay Catte has encountered was published in what publication?
(a) The Louisville Tribune.
(b) The New Republic.
(c) The Charleston Gazette.
(d) The National Review.

Short Answer Questions

1. Anne Braden attended the trial of which of her family members when he was accused of sedition?

2. What was the name of the organization that "publicized [William Shockley's] work in white nationalist circles" (88)?

3. William Shockley was what kind of scientist who practiced his research in the United States?

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

5. Catte makes the claim that "white Appalachians became persona non grata after" (83) what event?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. For what purpose does Catte draw a connection among William Shockley, Harry Caudill, and J.D. Vance?

4. What was the Moynihan Report?

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

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

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

9. What was the Whitesburg Conference?

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

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