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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what did Arie Meaders' family scrub their floors when she was a child?
(a) Lye.
(b) Baking soda.
(c) Lemon juice.
(d) Vinegar.

2. What career did Carrie Stewart begin at age 74?
(a) She became a midwife.
(b) She became a pianist.
(c) She became a novelist.
(d) She became a school teacher.

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

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

5. What example of racial prejudice did Anna Tutt witness as a child?
(a) The hanging of a black man.
(b) The beating of a black woman in public.
(c) Being harassed by white children because of her race.
(d) The denying of jobs to black workers.

6. Who was the person hired to coordinate the development of manuscripts for Foxfire Press for one year?
(a) Eliot Wigginton.
(b) Dana Holcomb.
(c) Linda Page.
(d) Aunt Arie Carpenter.

7. Which of the following statements does not describe who Allen Levy is?
(a) The local mayor's son.
(b) A grad student at the University of Carolina in architecture.
(c) Someone offering free labor in exchange for experience.
(d) A volunteer worker for the Mountain City project.

8. In the 1930's in Mountain City, which of the following was not a local product shipped out of town to markets?
(a) Medicinal herbs.
(b) Live chickens.
(c) Bundles of animal hides.
(d) Oil.

9. To where would Carrie Stewart walk barefoot in the mud as a child?
(a) To the grocery store.
(b) To her grandmother's house.
(c) To school.
(d) To church.

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

11. What was the profession of Viola Lenoir's mother?
(a) Singer.
(b) Hotel cook.
(c) Practical nurse.
(d) Seamstress.

12. What was the title of the book published by Foxfire Press during the period covered by the grant?
(a) Quilting in Southern Georgia.
(b) Mountain Laurel and Other Appalachian Trees.
(c) The Foxfire Book of Wood Stove Cookery.
(d) The Foxfire Book of Mountain Medicinal Herbs.

13. 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 National Foundation for the Arts.
(b) The McNair Foundation.
(c) The Putnam-Southerland Foundation.
(d) The Georgia Council for the Arts.

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

15. At what age was Bruce Mosley's grandmother Polly freed from slavery?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Seven.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edwin Meaders use to fuel his kiln?

2. How long does it typically take to fire pottery in a kiln?

3. From where did Arie Meaders' paternal ancestors originate?

4. What organization does the Foxfire organization plan to house in the log cabin they're restoring?

5. What is the objective of using a kiln?

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