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

2. As a young girl, what did Flora learn to make from honeysuckle vines?
(a) Wreaths.
(b) A dye for wool.
(c) A healing tea.
(d) Baskets.

3. What did Flora learn to boil honeysuckle vines with to remove the bark?
(a) Baking soda.
(b) Turpentine.
(c) Vinegar.
(d) Washing powder.

4. 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?
(a) Helping with the cattle.
(b) Weaving cloth.
(c) Working in the sawmill or gristmill.
(d) Working the farm or tending the gardens.

5. When Flora's mother got shot in the shoulder, what kind of poultice was applied to her wound?
(a) A castor oil poultice.
(b) A walnut poultice.
(c) A sulphur and molasses poultice.
(d) A honey and egg poultice.

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. Who wrote the chapter in Foxfire 9 entitled "Foxfire--What Is It"?

3. What business did Earl Gillespie operate in addition to a general store?

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

5. What other business did John Moore run in addition to his general store?

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