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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Robert Payne was a disabled African American miner who acted as what official in the Disabled Miners and Widows organization?
(a) The treasurer.
(b) The president.
(c) The vice president.
(d) The secretary.

2. The "most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) essay Catte has encountered was published in what year?
(a) 2018.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2016.

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

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

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

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

7. By what decade had William Shockley "been largely disowned by the mainstream scientific community" (84)?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1990s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1960s.

8. In what state did Dan Gibson use "armed resistance to route bulldozers off his family land" (100)?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) West Virginia.
(d) Alabama.

9. The FSA was created in an attempt to combat what social ill?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Malnutrition.

10. In what year did four masked men attack the night watchman employed by the Round Mountain Coal Company?
(a) 1946.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1968.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The bulldozers that destroyed Ollie Combs's land were sent by what kind of company?

3. Huey Perry was instrumental in "directing community action groups in the poorest parts of" (103) what state?

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

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

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