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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. 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) Wearing blackface.
(d) Killing a cat.

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

3. Catte claims that Harry Caudil's work drew attention away from what other important cause?
(a) The Women's Liberation movement.
(b) The Civil Rights movement.
(c) The Women's Suffrage movement.
(d) The Gay Rights movement.

4. The National Review did NOT use what term to refer to the people of Appalachia?
(a) Disenfranchised.
(b) Addicted.
(c) Unemployed.
(d) Dependent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade was the FSA created in the United States?

2. William Shockley claimed that his research led him to what conclude that African Americans were predisposed for what characteristic?

3. What book argued that people living in impoverished areas were "less evolved" (76) than other people?

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

5. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had a population of "just 5,000 people, most of them poor" (101)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the incident with Ollie Combs in 1965.

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

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

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