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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. In what year did Ollie Combs endeavor to conduct a protest against her land being destroyed by bulldozers?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1945.
2. In what year did the sheriff of Pike County, Kentucky order a raid on the home of community organizers Karen and Joseph Malloy?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1967.
3. Much of Harry Caudil's advice to William Shockley in his second letter had to do with what aspect of the study?
(a) How to manipulate its results.
(b) How to mask its true cost.
(c) How to disguise its true nature.
(d) How to market it for publication.
4. On what holiday does Catte portray Ollie Combs as eating alone in her jail cell?
(a) Labor Day.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Easter.
5. In what year did four masked men attack the night watchman employed by the Round Mountain Coal Company?
(a) 1946.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1980.
Short Answer Questions
1. The National Review did NOT use what term to refer to the people of Appalachia?
2. The saboteurs who ambushed the Round Mountain Coal Company inflicted just under how many dollars in damage?
3. Carl Braden was sentenced to what length of time for sedition against the government?
4. Charles Murray is described as having taken what action before later describing it as "a teenage prank" (88)?
5. In what state did Dan Gibson use "armed resistance to route bulldozers off his family land" (100)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What connection does Catte make between Harry Caudill and William Shockley?
2. What qualities does Catte assert are shared by both J.D. Vance and Harry Caudill?
3. What point does Catte make about the Amazon recommendations connected to Hillbilly Elegy?
4. What does Catte name as the main flaw of popular narratives depicting Appalachia?
5. What advice does Catte provide for dealing with the Hillbilly Elegy zeitgeist, and what actions does Jillean McCommons add to that advice?
6. What was the Whitesburg Conference?
7. Describe the incident with Ollie Combs in 1965.
8. What connection does Catte make between Communism and the civil rights movement?
9. Who was Harry Caudill and why is he significant to Catte's argument?
10. When Catte thinks about the destruction done to Appalachian land, of what types of images are her thoughts largely composed?
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