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

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

3. What book argued that people living in impoverished areas were "less evolved" (76) than other people?
(a) Lamentable Folk.
(b) Degenerate Folk.
(c) Pitiful Folk.
(d) Hollow Folk.

4. Bill Strode worked for what newspaper when he was arrested for documenting a protester's actions?
(a) The Stanford-Gazette.
(b) The Charlottesville-Patriot.
(c) The Courier-Journal.
(d) The Courier-Times.

5. William Shockley claimed that his research led him to what conclude that African Americans were predisposed for what characteristic?
(a) Reduced life spans.
(b) Increased rates of heart disease.
(c) Low intelligence.
(d) Reduced fertility.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The saboteurs who ambushed the Round Mountain Coal Company inflicted just under how many dollars in damage?

3. The FSA employed artists of what sort to document the lives of Appalachians?

4. William Shockley was what kind of scientist who practiced his research in the United States?

5. In what year did William Shockley debate the African American psychiatrist Frances Cress Welsing (84)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Catte provide for dealing with the Hillbilly Elegy zeitgeist, and what actions does Jillean McCommons add to that advice?

2. Catte states that before 2016, "the last time the nation took such an obsessive interest in West Virginia's politics was" (77) on what occasion?

3. What was the Moynihan Report?

4. What is the one anomaly within the group of images Catte conjures when she thinks about the destruction of Appalachian land?

5. Who was Harry Caudill and why is he significant to Catte's argument?

6. What does Catte say about the way in which she views Appalachian history?

7. For what reason were images of black Appalachians left out of exposes of regional poverty?

8. What is a goal Catte names as NOT being achieved by the War on Poverty?

9. How did the War on Poverty allow white Americans to ignore the country's race relation problems?

10. What connection does Catte make between Communism and the civil rights movement?

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