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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 did Captain Irish Bill Moore and his wife Hattie often have to battle?
(a) Mice that infested the general store.
(b) Competition from other stores.
(c) Ants that infested the general store.
(d) Roughriders or bandits.

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

3. What was a madstone?
(a) A stone from a deer's stomach that was used to cure rabies.
(b) A blue stone used to treat depression.
(c) A white stone worn to ward off diptheria.
(d) A stone thought to cure insanity in people.

4. When did Jud and his siblings receive new shoes, cheese, and soda?
(a) At Easter.
(b) At Christmas.
(c) On their birthdays.
(d) Whenever their father sold cotton.

5. What food sweetener did Jud's father make?
(a) Sorghum syrup.
(b) Honey.
(c) Maple syrup.
(d) Cane sugar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of business did Jud open at age twenty-two?

2. What did the people interviewed in Foxfire 9 say that the scream of a panther sounds like?

3. What did Jud's father do for a living?

4. According to Ruth Holcomb, what did a bald eagle do to a baby?

5. What did other blacksmiths ride a horse ten or fifteen miles to get Jud's uncle to do for them?

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