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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 1969.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1954.

2. Harry Caudill sent William Shockley an encouraging letter in what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1974.

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

4. Linda Tate is an Appalachian author who "tells of the re-discovery" (90) of what kind of roots?
(a) Her Cherokee roots.
(b) Her Welsh roots.
(c) Her Iroquois roots.
(d) Her French-Canadian roots.

5. Under which United States president's administration was the Farm Security Agency (FSA) formed?
(a) Truman.
(b) Taft.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Eisenhower.

6. The young women who testified in court that they had seen bulldozers destroy a family graveyard lived in what area of their state?
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Northern.

7. Both Murray and Vance are said to claim what ancestry?
(a) Greek.
(b) Welsh.
(c) French.
(d) Scots-Irish.

8. In what year did Dan Gibson use "armed resistance to route bulldozers off his family land" (100)?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1987.

9. Charles Murray is described as having taken what action before later describing it as "a teenage prank" (88)?
(a) Robbing a house.
(b) Killing a cat.
(c) Burning a cross.
(d) Wearing blackface.

10. Harry Caudill asserted throughout his life that Appalachians' purported "dependency had something to do with" (85) what?
(a) Their lack of educational opportunities.
(b) Their climate.
(c) Their defective genes.
(d) Their poverty.

11. The Moynihan Report was billed as an inquiry into what aspect of African American life?
(a) Religion.
(b) Education.
(c) Violence.
(d) Poverty.

12. 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) Poor white Appalachians.
(b) Wealthy coal mine owners.
(c) Civil rights activists.
(d) Public school educators.

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

14. What work by Karl Marx was found in the raid on the home of Karen and Joseph Mulloy?
(a) On the Civil War in France.
(b) Das Kapital.
(c) The Wealth of Nations.
(d) The Communist Manifesto.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Catte describes the Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People as what kind of organization?

2. Catte asserts that both Harry Caudill and William Shockley promoted the implementation of what practice all the way until their deaths?

3. Catte asserts that "the Mulloys and McSurelys were indeed attempting to help poor individuals in the mountains seize power from" (98) whom?

4. Harry Caudil's work focused on which group of people within Appalachia?

5. In what year did four masked men attack the night watchman employed by the Round Mountain Coal Company?

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