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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" a particular decade "focused exclusively on the region's" (58) what?
(a) Toxicity.
(b) Ancient history.
(c) Strength.
(d) Deprivation.

2. Who is reported to be directing the film of Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Ron Howard.
(b) Charlie Kaufman.
(c) Steven Spielberg.
(d) Spike Jonze.

3. Catte disparages a Vanity Fair essay in which writer John Saward visits what state in order to "understand Donald Trump" (22)?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Kentucky.

4. What percentage of McDowell county residents voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election?
(a) 46.
(b) 79.
(c) 27.
(d) 89.

5. Catte asserts that all but which of the following citizens of Appalachia were left out of Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Conservatives.
(b) People of color.
(c) Environmentalists.
(d) Young people.

6. In April of 2019, filmmakers in what state "hosted the fourth Appalachian Queer Film Festival" (51)?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) West Virginia.

7. In what year did The United Mine Workers gather in order to present the governor with a list of demands?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

8. What war does Catte associate with "an indelible imprint" (10)?
(a) The War on Unions.
(b) The War on Youth.
(c) The War on Poverty.
(d) The War on Drugs.

9. The Appalachian Regional Commission created a definition of Appalachia that included how many counties?
(a) 528,
(b) 420.
(c) 200.
(d) 320.

10. Catte concludes that media coverage of what disaster "naturalized many practices in Appalachia" (20)?
(a) The Ball Mine Disaster.
(b) The Sago Mine disaster.
(c) The Cherry Mine Disaster.
(d) The Triangle Mine Disaster.

11. What template does Vance use to present his picture of Appalachia?
(a) The film Deliverance.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) His own harrowing childhood.
(d) The Hatfield-McCoy feud.

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

13. What did T.C. Crawford dub Appalachia within his book about the region?
(a) Wonderland.
(b) Hungerland.
(c) Murderland.
(d) Wasteland.

14. The filmmaker Colin Low is quoted as stating that "A camera is like" (58) what object?
(a) A sword.
(b) A gun.
(c) A time machine.
(d) An eraser.

15. Catte finds the most fault with which element of Vance's public persona during the book tour for Hillbilly Elegy?
(a) Humility.
(b) Deception.
(c) Self-hatred.
(d) Ulterior motives.

Short Answer Questions

1. The two instruments often associated with Appalachia are classified as what types of instruments?

2. Whose voices are often excluded from conversations about Appalachia in the media, according to Catte?

3. Catte laments that the memoir Hillbilly Elegy is populated by men who take what action?

4. Catte asserts that "Harvard University paid just $2.82 in annual property taxes on 11, 182 acres of land" (13) in what year?

5. What does Catte assert about the number of people "who know and celebrate a different Appalachia" (9)?

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