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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 39-77.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year were convictions of several members of the Hatfield and McCoy families secured?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1789.

2. What website "began running predictions that treated Appalachia as one very large state" (35) during the 2016 presidential campaign?
(a) Daily Mail.
(b) Consequence of Sound.
(c) Daily Kos.
(d) Daily Mirror.

3. The "most significant labor uprising in United States history" included around how many African American men and women?
(a) 500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 200.

4. What does Catte assert about the number of people "who know and celebrate a different Appalachia" (9)?
(a) They are few.
(b) They are many.
(c) Their numbers are growing.
(d) Their numbers are shrinking.

5. Catte began cataloguing what two types of documents about the "Appalachia Problem" (8)?
(a) Land covenants and interviews.
(b) Census forms and essays.
(c) Letters and land covenants.
(d) Interviews and essays.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte notes of the Hatfield-McCoy feud that "it was a real event that occurred in Appalachia at the turn of" (39) which century?

2. 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?

3. The Appalachian Regional Commission created a definition of Appalachia that included how many counties?

4. Catte insists that people in power use the designation of otherness for Appalachia for what reason?

5. Hillbilly Elegy is classified as what type of literature?

(see the answer key)

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