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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. Much of Harry Caudil's advice to William Shockley in his second letter had to do with what aspect of the study?
(a) How to manipulate its results.
(b) How to mask its true cost.
(c) How to disguise its true nature.
(d) How to market it for publication.

2. William Shockley claimed that his research led him to what conclude that African Americans were predisposed for what characteristic?
(a) Reduced fertility.
(b) Increased rates of heart disease.
(c) Reduced life spans.
(d) Low intelligence.

3. Huey Perry is described by Catte as leading a funeral procession composed of how many cars?
(a) 80.
(b) 500.
(c) 100.
(d) 30.

4. In what county did Dan Gibson use "armed resistance to route bulldozers off his family land" (100)?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Knott.
(c) Broward.
(d) Mabel.

5. By what decade had William Shockley "been largely disowned by the mainstream scientific community" (84)?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1990s.

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 did Harry Caudill pass away?

3. Both Murray and Vance are said to claim what ancestry?

4. Catte states that when she imagines her region's history, she sees what objects?

5. Catte names what "language" as one that Appalachians often "inject into [their] work" (98)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What fault does Catte find with the strategy of trying to ignore the implications of Hillbilly Elegy's success?

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

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

6. What advice does Catte provide for dealing with the Hillbilly Elegy zeitgeist, and what actions does Jillean McCommons add to that advice?

7. What was the Whitesburg Conference?

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

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

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

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