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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 kind of work did Jud do in the military?
(a) Journalism for military publications.
(b) Blacksmithing.
(c) He was in the infantry.
(d) Medical work.

2. What did Roy Roberts, another owner of a general store, sell to the train engineers as they drove through his town?
(a) Socks and shoes.
(b) Ham.
(c) Cake.
(d) Coffee.

3. What trade did Frank Moore have to learn because his family was so poor?
(a) Gunsmithing.
(b) Pottery making.
(c) Blacksmithing.
(d) Trapping animals for fur trading.

4. What were the fascinators sold in general stores?
(a) Wooden toys for babies.
(b) Candy made from dried apples and honey.
(c) Handheld mirrors.
(d) Crocheted, triangular shawls to cover the head & shoulders.

5. According to Ethel Corn, how did Octy Mcall scare away a panther she found sitting in her open cabin window?
(a) By screaming loudly and banging her pots and pans.
(b) By throwing a knife at the panther.
(c) With fire.
(d) With a pan of boiling water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jud begin working on in 1934?

2. When was Jud Nelson born?

3. During the depression, which of the following was not a way the customers of Ed and Martha Roane could pay off their debt to the general store?

4. 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?

5. What were panthers sometimes called in the mountains of Appalachia?

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