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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blacks in Appalachia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What building in Mountain City 1930's has burned?
(a) One of the churches.
(b) One of the hotels.
(c) The railroad depot.
(d) The gristmill.

2. How old is Carrie Stewart?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Eighty-six.
(c) Ninety-two.
(d) One hundred and three.

3. How old is Harley Penland?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Ninety.
(c) Sixty-two.
(d) Eighty-three.

4. What was Viola Lenoir's educational level?
(a) High school graduate.
(b) 7th grade.
(c) 4th grade.
(d) She had no formal education.

5. Why don't Mountain City residents want to build something that would draw increased tourists to their community?
(a) They don't like outsiders visiting them.
(b) They want more factories instead.
(c) They want to tear down the town and move elsewhere.
(d) They don't want more traffic, noise or fast food restaurants.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1977, what property did the Foxfire organization purchase?

2. What kind of communities does Eliot Wigginton like?

3. In the 1930's in Mountain City, which of the following was not a local product shipped out of town to markets?

4. Which of Harvey's ancestors was a slave?

5. In what year was Bruce Mosley born?

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