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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Quilting - The Joy of My Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the customary occasion on which to give a friendship quilt to someone in the Appalachian mountains in the 1890s?
(a) To commemorate the birth of a child.
(b) At their wedding.
(c) On their eighteenth birthday.
(d) On their birthday.

2. What was the subject of the first book published by Foxfire Press?
(a) Raising hogs and chickens.
(b) Square dancing.
(c) Making lye soap.
(d) Aunt Arie Carpenter.

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

4. What was the customary occasion on which to give a "Dutch doll" quilt in the mountains?
(a) As a wedding gift.
(b) As a graduation gift.
(c) As a gift for a new baby.
(d) As a Christmas gift.

5. What Appalachian photographer photographed Appalachian mountain scenes during the Depression and left a collection of photographs that Foxfire Press wants to publish?
(a) Tom Whitfield.
(b) Amos McGee.
(c) R. A. Romanes.
(d) Horace Jamison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Roy Roberts, another owner of a general store, sell to the train engineers as they drove through his town?

2. Which of the following is not a form of payment that Henry Youngblood accepted for his herbal doctoring?

3. How were the topics to be featured in the new series of books from Foxfire Press determined?

4. Why have reviewers stopped reviewing the new books in the Foxfire series?

5. What award was won by the first book Foxfire Press published?

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