Hillbilly Elegy Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

J.D. Vance
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Hillbilly Elegy Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Vance's parents marry?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1983.

2. Who was Vance's stepfather and his eventual adoptive father?
(a) Ron Selby.
(b) Don Bowman.
(c) Bob Hamel.
(d) William Julius Wilson.

3. What is the name of the author's grandfather?
(a) James Ratcliff.
(b) Jim Vance.
(c) Michael Vance.
(d) William Jackson.

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

5. What musician does Vance describe Papaw listening to continuously on repeat in Chapter 7?
(a) Dr. Dre.
(b) Johnny Cash.
(c) Willie Nelson.
(d) Hank Williams, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vance describe Papaw's main hobby as in Chapter 7?

2. Who is the Middletown High School teacher who works with at-risk youth in Middletown and is quoted by Vance in Chapter 4?

3. When does Vance describe the first wave of Scots-Irish immigrants landing in the New World in his Introduction?

4. What percentage of white children lived in neighborhoods with poverty rates above 10% in 2000, according to Vance in Chapter 4?

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

(see the answer key)

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