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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Ollie Combs endeavor to conduct a protest against her land being destroyed by bulldozers?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1925.

2. The FSA was created in an attempt to combat a particular societal ill by resettling whom?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Unemployed coal miners.
(c) Appalachians.
(d) Impoverished farmers.

3. Catte asserts that both Harry Caudill and William Shockley promoted the implementation of what practice all the way until their deaths?
(a) Agricultural laws.
(b) Indian boarding schools.
(c) Coal mining unions.
(d) Eugenics.

4. Catte states that the Moynihan Report had been of little use to the United States government after which group of people denounced the report?
(a) Civil rights activists.
(b) Public school educators.
(c) Poor white Appalachians.
(d) Wealthy coal mine owners.

5. Carl Braden was sentenced to what length of time for sedition against the government?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 35 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 15 years.

6. Catte describes the Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People as what kind of organization?
(a) Grassroots.
(b) Idealistic.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Naive.

7. In what year did Harry Caudill pass away?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1979.
(d) 2003.

8. In what year was The Moynihan Report published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1945.

9. Catte names what "language" as one that Appalachians often "inject into [their] work" (98)?
(a) Poetic.
(b) Music.
(c) Emotional intelligence.
(d) Visual literacy.

10. Young women in what state testified in court that they had seen bulldozers "rip through a family cemetery" (100)?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Alabama.

11. Catte states that in the 1960s, what county had a population of "just 5,000 people, most of them poor" (101)?
(a) Broward.
(b) Knott.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Pike.

12. What adjective does Catte use to describe the action Appalachians took "against corporate interests" (102)?
(a) Ingenious.
(b) Ineffective.
(c) Radical.
(d) Subversive.

13. According to Catte, what was the subject of the talk between Murray and Vance at the American Enterprise Institute?
(a) Education reform.
(b) The decline of the white working class.
(c) The decline of the middle class.
(d) Welfare reform.

14. In what year did William Shockley debate the African American psychiatrist Frances Cress Welsing (84)?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1958.

15. The "the most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) essay Catte has encountered was published in what publication?
(a) The National Review.
(b) The Charleston Gazette.
(c) The New Republic.
(d) The Louisville Tribune.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under which United States president's administration was the Farm Security Agency (FSA) formed?

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

3. Both Murray and Vance are said to claim what ancestry?

4. The FSA was created in an attempt to combat what social ill?

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

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