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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many objectives does Catte name for her nonfiction work What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia?
2. Under which U.S. president did the War on Poverty evolve, according to Catte?
3. Catte states that Appalachia has the same what as every other part of the United States?
4. In what Tennessee city close to Catte's home can tourists eat "feudin' fried chicken" at the "Hatfield-McCoy Dinner Show" (39)?
5. Catte insists that people in power use the designation of otherness for Appalachia for what reason?
Short Essay Questions
1. What strategy does Catte present as part of her plan of action for living in "Trump Country" (52) and what actions does she say she will refrain from taking?
2. What is the significance of the term "Murderland" (40) when used by T.C. Crawford?
3. What distinction does Catte make between empathy and solidarity?
4. Discuss a particular critical point Catte makes about Hillbilly Elegy.
5. How many states are numbered among the region of Appalachia and which state is the only one to fall wholly within the region?
6. Provide the facts of the most basic interpretation of the Hatfield-McCoy feud.
7. What evidence does Catte use to support her claim about the environmental problems in Texas?
8. For what purpose does Catte discuss the town of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee not far from her home?
9. What action is suggested as "making it easier to paint Appalachians as perpetual victims" (52) and why?
10. What is Catte's main claim about the problems of the Appalachia region?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that discusses the symbolism of the cover art chosen for What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Catte's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different locations in a particular way within the text of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.
Essay Topic 3
How are the themes of isolation and rejection portrayed in What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia? Examine Catte's treatment of these themes throughout the book.
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