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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 97-113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. William Shockley worked as a scientist at what institution when he emerged as a leader within a particular movement?
(a) The United States Department of Agriculture.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Harvard College.
(d) Yale University.

2. In what year was Carl Braden arrested and convicted of sedition against the government for helping to purchase a home for an African American family?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1969.

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

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

5. Arthur Rothstein was known for documenting the lives of those evicted from their homes as a result of what construction project?
(a) A protected marshland.
(b) A coal mine.
(c) A national park.
(d) A zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had "over fifty millionaires" (101)?

2. Roger May is a friend of Catte who works as what type of artist?

3. In what year was T.C. Crawford's book about Appalachia published?

4. In what year did Dan Gibson use "armed resistance to route bulldozers off his family land" (100)?

5. What claim does Catte make about the number "of towns in Appalachia without a visible African American or Latino community" (52)?

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