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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. Bill Strode worked for what newspaper when he was arrested for documenting a protester's actions?
(a) The Courier-Journal.
(b) The Courier-Times.
(c) The Charlottesville-Patriot.
(d) The Stanford-Gazette.

2. In what year did Murray and Vance host a talk at the American Enterprise Institute?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1967.
(d) 2016.

3. Myles Horton was "a labor and civil rights activist" (98) from what state?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Kentucky.

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

5. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had a population of "just 5,000 people, most of them poor" (101)?
(a) Knott.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Broward.
(d) Pike.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte states that the Moynihan Report had been of little use to the United States government after which group of people denounced the report?

2. In what year was Carl Braden arrested and convicted of sedition against the government for helping to purchase a home for an African American family?

3. Under which United States president's administration was the Farm Security Agency (FSA) formed?

4. The saboteurs who ambushed the Round Mountain Coal Company inflicted just under how many dollars in damage?

5. Linda Tate is an Appalachian author who "tells of the re-discovery" (90) of what kind of roots?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the Moynihan Report?

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

6. What was the Whitesburg Conference?

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

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

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

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

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