Hillbilly Elegy Ch. 11 Quiz

What does Vance appreciate about his OSU class schedule?

• His classes are only four days a week, and never before 9:30 AM.

• The classes are all easy, and he barely has to do any reading.

• The classes are difficult, and they challenge him to read more than Vance had read "in the last 20 years."

• His classes are only four days a week, and all take place a t night so he can work during the day.

What is the "brain drain" that Vance noticed in Columbus?

• Many of the young people there left struggling cities for employment or educational opportunities and will never return.

• Students are forced to take meaningless classes, so their ability to focus on important classes is affected.

• Conservative students are leaving the university in large numbers because of liberal bias among professors.

Why does Vance want to be a lawyer?

• Rich kids in Middletown had parents who were either doctors or lawyers, and Vance can't stand blood.

• Mamaw once told him that the lawyers on her favorite television shows were "the smartest people in the world."

• He wants to help out all of the working class people who get "screwed" by the legal system.

What advice from his professor does Vance not take?

• Focus on education and don't get distracted by work.

• Meet with a tutor twice a week.

• Get medical help for exhaustion.

• Stop partying.

Vance returns to Middletown between spring and summer sessions at OSU because...

• his mother gets into a car accident and has to go back to rehab.

• Lindsay is having trouble with her kids, and she wants J.D. to "whip their a**es into shape."

• he gets sick from his impossible work and school responsibilities.

Why does Vance disagree with the Ohio senate's bill to control payday lending?

• Sometimes people (and Vance himself) need a short-term loan that they couldn't get any other way.

• He knows the CEO of the biggest payday loan company in the country, and he has promised to join the company after law school.

• The bill is being pushed by liberal Democrats.

Who does Vance refer to as a "dips**t in a spotty beard"?

• A nineteen-year-old student in one of his classes who makes ignorant statements about the invasion of Iraq.

• A twenty-nine-year-old teaching assistant who makes ignorant statements about the invasion of Iraq.

• A pacifist guest speaker in his Foreign Policy class who makes ignorant statements about the invasion of Iraq.

Who keeps the family together after Mamaw's death?

• Lindsay

• Aunt Wee (Lori)

• Bev, J.D's mom

• Uncle Jimmy

According to Vance, why did his neighbors in Middletown have such a pessimistic outlook?

• Years of decline in the blue-collar economy left many of them with no future.

• Many believed that white people were being kept out of good jobs.

• They were disappointed because their grandparents had told them that their lives would be much better.

What reason does Vance give for working class whites believing conspiracy theories about Barack Obama?

• Because Barack Obama - a wealthy, brilliant constitutional law professor who went to Ivy League schools - is so different from them.

• Because Barack Obama - a black man and a Muslim - is so different from them.

• Because Barack Obama's policies ruined the manufacturing and mining industries in America.