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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 114-132.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What claim does Catte make about the number "of towns in Appalachia without a visible African American or Latino community" (52)?
(a) There are few.
(b) The number is growing.
(c) There are many.
(d) There are none.

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

3. About how many people live within the region of Appalachia?
(a) 50 million.
(b) 15 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 25 million.

4. Jack E. Weller was a writer who originally hailed from what state?
(a) Maine.
(b) New York.
(c) Vermont.
(d) Delaware.

5. Ollie Combs was how old when she protested against the destruction of her land?
(a) 54.
(b) 39.
(c) 66.
(d) 89.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" a particular decade "focused exclusively on the region's" (58) what?

2. What work by Karl Marx was found in the raid on the home of Karen and Joseph Mulloy?

3. By what decade had William Shockley "been largely disowned by the mainstream scientific community" (84)?

4. Linda Tate is an Appalachian author who "tells of the re-discovery" (90) of what kind of roots?

5. Ada Smith is a founder of the "Stay Together Appalachia" (122) project for which group?

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