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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Catte asserts that the "root of Appalachia's problems" (122) lies in what element's lengthy history in the region?
(a) Unchecked capitalism.
(b) Unchecked oppression.
(c) Unchecked aggression.
(d) Unchecked poverty.

2. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had "over fifty millionaires" (101)?
(a) Knott.
(b) Pike.
(c) Broward.
(d) Jackson.

3. What was the name of the organization that "publicized [William Shockley's] work in white nationalist circles" (88)?
(a) The Purity Fund.
(b) The Patriot Fund.
(c) The Pioneer Fund.
(d) The Farmhand Fund.

4. Lewis Hine became known for documenting the lives of Appalachians living in what state?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Tennessee.

5. Catte recounts a story in which Jack E. Weller asked to be taken to what location "one last time" (115)?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The lake.
(c) The mountains.
(d) The plains.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Appalachian Land Study found that nearly what fraction of Appalachia's land was owned by corporations?

2. What group does Catte assert rarely exists "in the worlds popular authors create for us" (116)?

3. What video game is said to contain a reference to the Hatfield-McCoy feud?

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

5. In what decade were Harry Caudil's works about Appalachia published?

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