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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vance describe the road to hell being paved with in Chapter 6?
(a) Good actions.
(b) Desire.
(c) Hope.
(d) Good intentions.

2. What did Vance's mother earn an associate's degree in at the local community college?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Hairdressing.
(c) Nursing.
(d) Teaching.

3. Vance opens his Introduction by telling the reader that he finds the existence of the book itself to be what?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Imminent.
(c) Integral.
(d) Important.

4. Who intervened when Mamaw almost shot a man for stealing one of the family's cows?
(a) Uncle Pet.
(b) Uncle Pete.
(c) Uncle David.
(d) Uncle John.

5. What does Vance describe his grandmother convincing him to do for his mother in Chapter 9?
(a) Have her committed.
(b) Give her "clean" urine.
(c) Go to buy groceries.
(d) Drive her to the doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many people live in Jackson, Kentucky, according to Vance in Chapter 1?

2. What park does Vance describe across the street from his childhood home in Middleton?

3. From what post-graduate institution did Vance graduate?

4. What did Mamaw tell Vance that there was nothing lower than when he was growing up?

5. According to Vance in Chapter 1, most of the people in Jackson, Kentucky live in the mountains surrounding what highway?

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