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

2. Both Murray and Vance are said to claim what ancestry?
(a) Scots-Irish.
(b) French.
(c) Greek.
(d) Welsh.

3. 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 coal mine.
(c) A protected marshland.
(d) A zoo.

4. Charles Murray is described as having taken what action before later describing it as "a teenage prank" (88)?
(a) Robbing a house.
(b) Burning a cross.
(c) Killing a cat.
(d) Wearing blackface.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ollie Combs was how old when she protested against the destruction of her land?

2. The FSA was created in an attempt to combat what social ill?

3. Lewis Hine became known for documenting the lives of Appalachians living in what state?

4. In what decade were Harry Caudil's works about Appalachia published?

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 Appalachian writers and their use of the language of visual literacy?

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

3. What does Catte name as the main flaw of popular narratives depicting Appalachia?

4. What tradition does Catte name as "one of the finest and oldest Appalachian traditions" (98)?

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

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

7. For what reason were images of black Appalachians left out of exposes of regional poverty?

8. 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?

9. What qualities does Catte assert are shared by both J.D. Vance and Harry Caudill?

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

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