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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Haint Tales and Other Scary Stories.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal did Ada Crone think followed her home from the circus?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A panda.
(c) A hyena.
(d) A tiger.

2. What work did Jud's wife Jenny do before she married?
(a) She was a musician.
(b) She was a nurse.
(c) She was a cook.
(d) She was a schoolteacher.

3. In the section of Foxfire 9 entitled "The General Store," how did the illiterate general store owner keep track of outstanding debts owed to him for items his customers had purchased on credit?
(a) He relied on his memory.
(b) He drew pictures of the items purchased.
(c) He hired a clerk who could read and write to track his debts.
(d) He trusted his customers to remember how much they owed.

4. When Jud was seventeen, for whom did he work?
(a) The local tanner.
(b) The local sheriff.
(c) A local blacksmith.
(d) The local preacher.

5. Of what material was the building that housed Jud's business made?
(a) Brick.
(b) Tin.
(c) Adobe.
(d) Logs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Roy Roberts, another owner of a general store, sell to the train engineers as they drove through his town?

2. How did the number of accounts held by women at the Moore's general store compare to the number of accounts held by men?

3. What kind of work did Jud do in the military?

4. In what season of the year did most of Jud's blacksmith customers pay for the work Jud had done for them?

5. From what country did the Moore family emigrate in 1740?

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