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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do most people pursue folk pottery?
(a) As a business activity.
(b) As a way to relax.
(c) As an artistic or creative endeavor.
(d) As a recreational activity.

2. What is the status of the railroad depot in Mountain City today?
(a) It was damaged in a tornado and is being repaired.
(b) It expanded in size and contains a mini-mall.
(c) It no longer exists.
(d) It has been preserved as a historic building.

3. What did Carrie Stewart eat for breakfast as a child?
(a) Biscuits and gravy.
(b) Cornbread and milk.
(c) Grits and bacon.
(d) Eggs and biscuits.

4. When Arie Meaders' retired from pottery, what activity did she start doing?
(a) Quilting.
(b) Baking cookies.
(c) Writing novels.
(d) Crocheting.

5. To whom does Bruce Mosley give credit for improving racial tension in America?
(a) Reverend Al Sharpton.
(b) President Obama.
(c) Reverend Jesse Jackson.
(d) The younger generation and Martin Luther King.

6. What organization gave Foxfire a grant that allowed the organization to hire a person to coordinate the development of manuscripts for Foxfire Press for one year?
(a) The McNair Foundation.
(b) The Putnam-Southerland Foundation.
(c) The National Foundation for the Arts.
(d) The Georgia Council for the Arts.

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

8. What kind of sports team did Mountain City have in the 1930's?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Football.
(c) Hockey.
(d) Baseball.

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

10. How did Arie Meaders' family cure thrush when she was a child?
(a) With dandelion tea.
(b) With sassafras tea.
(c) With cod liver oil.
(d) With garden sage.

11. Which season of the year is not good for making pottery?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

12. What was the educational level of Viola Lenoir's mother?
(a) College graduate.
(b) 9th grade.
(c) 5th grade.
(d) 8th grade.

13. What was the Tutt family supposed to put on their cotton plants to kill boll weevils?
(a) A mixture of arsenic and molasses.
(b) Castor oil.
(c) Kerosene.
(d) Cayenne pepper juice.

14. Which of Arie Meaders' children is the only one who was interested in pottery?
(a) Caleb.
(b) Lanier.
(c) Jessie.
(d) Adam.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of factory is located in Mountain City in the present day?

2. What famous couple does Arie Meaders believe once visited and bought pottery from her?

3. What was the educational level of Viola Lenoir's grandmothers?

4. When Harvey Penland was a child, how long was his school year?

5. Why didn't Harvey Penland's father value education and encourage Harvey to pursue his education?

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