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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under which U.S. president did the War on Poverty evolve, according to Catte?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Carter.

2. Catte states that in a "former life," (54) she had served in what position?
(a) A librarian.
(b) A social worker.
(c) A coal miner.
(d) A translator.

3. What website "began running predictions that treated Appalachia as one very large state" (35) during the 2016 presidential campaign?
(a) Daily Kos.
(b) Daily Mirror.
(c) Daily Mail.
(d) Consequence of Sound.

4. What kind of Darwinism posited a link between privilege and innate superiority?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Ethnocentric.
(c) Marxist.
(d) Social.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state is a particular cause said to be "is immortalized in many songs and union anthems" (44)?

2. What attitude are the coal companies said to have exhibited toward organized labor unions?

3. Both Trump and what other candidate won Appalachia by a wide margin in the 2016 West Virginia primary?

4. Catte asserts that "The visual archive of Appalachia created in" a particular decade "focused exclusively on the region's" (58) what?

5. Catte states that Appalachia has the same what as every other part of the United States?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspect of Texans' curiosity strikes Catte as ironic during her short residency in Texas?

2. What distinction does Catte make between empathy and solidarity?

3. In what way does Catte use the metaphor of a mirror to characterize the Appalachian identity?

4. What does Catte mean when she names the "clinical" (7) reasons for her move out of Appalachia?

5. What faults does Catte find with J.D. Vance outside of his authorship of Hillbilly Elegy?

6. Provide the facts of the most basic interpretation of the Hatfield-McCoy feud.

7. What event does Elizabeth Catte use to mark the timing of her move out of Appalachia six months before a particular event?

8. For what purpose does Catte discuss the town of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee not far from her home?

9. What is Catte's main claim about the problems of the Appalachia region?

10. What evidence does Catte use to support her claim about the environmental problems in Texas?

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