What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia Test | Final Test - Hard

Elizabeth Catte
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 153 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia Test | Final Test - Hard

Elizabeth Catte
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 153 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer 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?

2. Bill Strode worked for a newspaper based in what city when he was arrested for documenting a protester's actions?

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

4. Catte names an essay by which writer as "the most offensive 'Trump Country'" (98) piece she has encountered?

5. In what year did Harry Caudill pass away?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the incident with Ollie Combs in 1965.

2. What point does Catte make about the Amazon recommendations connected to Hillbilly Elegy?

3. For what purpose does Catte draw a connection among William Shockley, Harry Caudill, and J.D. Vance?

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

5. What does Catte name as the main flaw of popular narratives depicting Appalachia?

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

7. When Catte thinks about the destruction done to Appalachian land, of what types of images are her thoughts largely composed?

8. Describe the link between the War on Poverty and the rise of eugenics.

9. What tradition does Catte name as "one of the finest and oldest Appalachian traditions" (98)?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the role of the “Trump Country” (8) phenomenon Catte depicts within What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia. How does Catte use the phenomenon’s societal implications in order to highlight multiple themes within the book?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Catte's discussion of her own identity as a resident of Appalachia. What themes are touched upon within these instances and what rhetorical devices does Catte use in order to make these connections explicit?

Essay Topic 3

Perform a biographical criticism of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by researching Catte's life and work. Be sure to create a strong and specific claim focused on this particular book and then support that claim with quotes from the book and from your research of Catte.

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