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

2. Young women in what state testified in court that they had seen bulldozers "rip through a family cemetery" (100)?
(a) Alabama.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Kentucky.

3. What book argued that people living in impoverished areas were "less evolved" (76) than other people?
(a) Degenerate Folk.
(b) Pitiful Folk.
(c) Lamentable Folk.
(d) Hollow Folk.

4. In what year did Kentucky succeed in terminating "the funding for many anti-poverty workers" (102)?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1979.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1945.

5. Robert Payne was a disabled African American miner who acted as what official in the Disabled Miners and Widows organization?
(a) The vice president.
(b) The treasurer.
(c) The president.
(d) The secretary.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Carl Braden was sentenced to what length of time for sedition against the government?

4. Catte claims that Harry Caudil's work drew attention away from what other important cause?

5. In what year was The Moynihan Report published?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the link between the War on Poverty and the rise of eugenics.

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

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

8. Describe the incident with Ollie Combs in 1965.

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

10. What point does Catte make about the Amazon recommendations connected to Hillbilly Elegy?

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