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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 registered voters resided within McDowell County during the 2016 presidential election?

2. The "most significant labor uprising in United States history" included around how many African American men and women?

3. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" what decade "focused exclusively on" (58) a particular quality of Appalachia?

4. How many dollars did Hugh O'Connor pay the young miner for the use of the miner's image?

5. To what state did Catte and her partner move when leaving Tennessee?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss a particular critical point Catte makes about Hillbilly Elegy.

2. What faults does Catte find with J.D. Vance outside of his authorship of Hillbilly Elegy?

3. What is Hillbilly Elegy?

4. What is Catte's main claim about the problems of the Appalachia region?

5. What action is suggested as "making it easier to paint Appalachians as perpetual victims" (52) and why?

6. What are Catte's two objectives within What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia?

7. Provide the facts of the most basic interpretation of the Hatfield-McCoy feud.

8. What aspect of Texans' curiosity strikes Catte as ironic during her short residency in Texas?

9. In what decade was a government-funded visual archive of Appalachia created and what was its central focus?

10. What is the significance of the term "Murderland" (40) when used by T.C. Crawford?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Catte’s use of the image motif within the nonfiction work What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia. Be sure to include discussion of textual elements such as Catte’s use of the photo album metaphor.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Catte's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.

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