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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. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had a population of "just 5,000 people, most of them poor" (101)?
2. In what year did Harry Caudill pass away?
3. In what decade was the FSA created in the United States?
4. Catte names an essay by which writer as "the most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) piece she has encountered?
5. In what year did Kentucky succeed in terminating "the funding for many anti-poverty workers" (102)?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what purpose does Catte draw a connection among William Shockley, Harry Caudill, and J.D. Vance?
2. What connection does Catte draw among William Shockley, Harry Caudill, and J.D. Vance?
3. Catte states that before 2016, "the last time the nation took such an obsessive interest in West Virginia's politics was" (77) on what occasion?
4. What was the Whitesburg Conference?
5. When Catte thinks about the destruction done to Appalachian land, of what types of images are her thoughts largely composed?
6. Who was Harry Caudill and why is he significant to Catte's argument?
7. What qualities does Catte assert are shared by both J.D. Vance and Harry Caudill?
8. What is a goal Catte names as NOT being achieved by the War on Poverty?
9. Describe the link between the War on Poverty and the rise of eugenics.
10. What connection does Catte make between Communism and the civil rights movement?
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
Examine the role of the “Trump Country” (8) phenomenon Catte depicts within What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia. How does Catte use the phenomenon’s societal implications in order to highlight multiple themes within the book?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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