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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. During the week of battle between the private army and the mine workers, what phrase did the miners and their scouts use to identify their allies?
2. The filmmaker Colin Low is quoted as stating that "A camera is like" (58) what object?
3. What is the only state entirely within Appalachia?
4. Catte states that Appalachia can be counted upon to be defined in what way?
5. In what state did private detectives hired by a negotiating coal company terrorize women and children with machine gun fire?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Catte's main claim about the problems of the Appalachia region?
2. What are Catte's two objectives within What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia?
3. In what way does Catte use the metaphor of a mirror to characterize the Appalachian identity?
4. What action is suggested as "making it easier to paint Appalachians as perpetual victims" (52) and why?
5. List the problems in the Appalachian region, according to Catte.
6. What is the significance of the term "Murderland" (40) when used by T.C. Crawford?
7. What evidence does Catte use to support her claim about the environmental problems in Texas?
8. Why is Catte's choice of time marker in the introduction's first sentence a significant one?
9. What distinction does Catte make between empathy and solidarity?
10. Provide the facts of the most basic interpretation of the Hatfield-McCoy feud.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is Catte’s message regarding the connection between anger and social change and what tools are used within What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia in order to get this message across to the reader?
Essay Topic 2
How is the theme of invisibility portrayed in What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia? Examine Catte's treatment of and messages regarding invisibility throughout the work.
Essay Topic 3
Examine how Catte invites the readers to learn particular lessons from the experiences of Appalachians and how she suggests they apply those lessons to their own lives. How does Catte accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?
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