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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Foxfire researchers, what amount of money did most people spend in the Moore general store during the course of a year in the early days of the store's operation?
(a) One to two hundred dollars.
(b) Fifty to a hundred dollars.
(c) Less than ten dollars.
(d) Ten to twenty dollars.

2. With what animals did a boy once pay Roy Roberts?
(a) Possums.
(b) Foxes.
(c) Bears.
(d) Skunks.

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

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

5. What remedy was used in the mountains for constipation?
(a) Honey.
(b) Castor oil.
(c) Butcher's bloom tea.
(d) Chamomile tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What remedy was used in the mountains for stings?

3. How many copies of the Foxfire books have been printed?

4. How did many of the Moore's customers pay their bills at the general store?

5. What were the fascinators sold in general stores?

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