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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hillbilly Elegy is classified as what type of literature?
(a) A novel.
(b) Poetry.
(c) A collection of short stories.
(d) A memoir.

2. Both Trump and what other candidate won Appalachia by a wide margin in the 2016 West Virginia primary?
(a) Clinton.
(b) Sanders.
(c) Carson.
(d) Rubio.

3. What video game is said to contain a reference to the Hatfield-McCoy feud?
(a) Minecraft.
(b) Skyrim.
(c) World of Warcraft.
(d) Overwatch.

4. In what month did a certain group of people swarm into Pikeville, Kentucky with the intention of holding a rally?
(a) October.
(b) November.
(c) April.
(d) June.

5. Individuals from how many different organizations marched on Blair Mountain sometime in the twenty-first century?
(a) 37.
(b) 29.
(c) 44.
(d) 65.

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte comments that the most fascinating scene in Before the Mountain Was Moved involves a conversation about "what we would today call" (116) what?

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

3. What adjective does Catte use to describe the action Appalachians took "against corporate interests" (102)?

4. Catte finds the most fault with which element of Vance's public persona during the book tour for Hillbilly Elegy?

5. The University of Chicago's S.S. MacClintock wrote about the Hatfield-McCoy feud in which journal?

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