Hillbilly Elegy Quizzes

Hillbilly Elegy Quiz 1

By Gina Hackett · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed August 09, 2018

1 What mathematical concept did Vance fail to understand in first grade?

Subtraction

Counting

Addition

Multiplication
2 What school does Vance eventually attend for law school?

Yale

University of Kentucky

University of Ohio

Harvard
3 Where is Vance's mother's family originally from?

New Haven, Connecticut

Middletown, Ohio

Jackson, Kentucky

Jacksonville, Florida
4 What did Vance and his mother use to represent the players in their model football fields?

Monopoly game pieces

Toy army men

Bobblehead dolls

Loose change
5 What is responsible for the terrible retention rates at American evangelical churches?

Lack of social support for congregations

Fear-based theology

Long sermons

Use of snakes in services
6 What did Mamaw call Vance's father?

A holy roller

A great father

A hillbilly

A wet blanket
7 Why does Vance think Mamaw didn't like Bob Hamel?

She saw herself in him

She thought Vance's biological father was a better choice

He had Mountain Dew mouth

He initiated fights with Vance's mother
8 What did Mamaw admit she was wrong about?

Setting Papaw on fire

Raising a family

Fighting when someone insults your family

Moving to Middletown
9 What was the nationality of the company that merged with Armco to become AK Steel?

Indian

Japanese

Chinese

American
10 What legendary feud does the Vance family include as part of its history?

Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton

Hatfields and the McCoys

Boston Tea Party

The Bloody Bender Family
11 What is the nickname that people in Jackson, Kentucky have for their county (Breathitt)?

Better Get Out of Breathitt

Bloody Breathitt

Bonnie Breathitt

Barely Breathin' Breathitt
12 How old was Mamaw when she shot a man who was trying to steal her family's cow?

Fifty-five

Eighteen

Twelve

Twenty-five
13 How did companies like Armco attract employees?

By promising their employees a free luxury car

By promising to put family of current employees at top of hiring list

By promising to hire men's wives

By offering the best benefits in the country
14 What was the most "devastating" moment in Vance's personal history?

The day he was accepted to Yale

September 11, 2001

The day Lindsay lost the modeling contest

The day he found out Lindsay was his half-sister
15 What, according to a 2000 study, predicts resiliency amongst Appalachian teens?

Admission to East Coast colleges

Intelligence

Church attendance

Avoidance and wishful thinking
16 Which family member does the name Vance come from?

Mamaw

Papaw

Vance's biological father

Vance's adoptive father
17 What did Uncle Pet use to nearly kill a trucker?

A shotgun

A paring knife

An electric saw

His pitbull, Sparky
18 Where did Mamaw advise Vance to hit a man if he had to?

The ears

The belly button

The eye

The crotch
19 What physical change did Vance begin to notice in himself when his mother and Bob started fighting at home?

Weight loss

Clumsiness

Ashy skin

Weight gain
20 What did Vance learn from the "revolving door of father figures" in his life?

How to manage money

That men drink beer and scream when a woman screams at them

How to keep fit

How to treat women right
21 Why did Vance lie in court?

Lindsay asked him to lie

He felt sorry for his mother

Mamaw and Papaw had paid a lot of money for the best lawyer in town

He wanted his mother to go to prison
22 What was the worst kind of insult, according to a "hillbilly"?

Insulting someone's lack of money

Insulting someone's home

Insulting someone's grandmother or grandmother

Insulting someone's appearance
23 Why does Vance think a 2012 report that found working-class whites worked ore hours than college-educated whites inaccurate?

Vance believes college-educated whites are all harder workers than working-class whites

It was conducted via surveys, and working-class people think they work more than they do

The sociologists who conducted the study belong to a far-right think tank

It was conducted too close to the election to receive accurate results
24 Who was the one republican for whom Papaw voted?

Richard Nixon

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan

George W. Bush
25 What sitcom did Vance's uncle compare to Mamaw and Papaw's household?

The Jeffersons

All in the Family

The Brady Bunch

Leave it to Beaver

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