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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The General Store.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease did Flora Youngblood cure by saying a Bible verse and blowing in the mouth of the afflicted for three days in a row?
(a) Ulcers.
(b) Thrush.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Cancer.

2. What award was won by the first book Foxfire Press published?
(a) A Pulitzer Prize.
(b) A Caldecott Medal.
(c) A Nebula.
(d) A Christopher award.

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

4. How did the number of accounts held by women at the Moore's general store compare to the number of accounts held by men?
(a) Few accounts were held by women.
(b) Most accounts were held by women.
(c) No accounts were held by women.
(d) All accounts were held by women.

5. 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?
(a) He trusted his customers to remember how much they owed.
(b) He relied on his memory.
(c) He hired a clerk who could read and write to track his debts.
(d) He drew pictures of the items purchased.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much education did Frank Moore receive?

2. When was the general store operated by Patton D. Queen opened?

3. What cure was used by Annie Henry for a nosebleed?

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

5. What was the name of the general store the Moore family established?

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