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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 New York publisher published the Foxfire series, of which Foxfire 9 is a part?
(a) Random House.
(b) Berkley Jove.
(c) Springer Verlach.
(d) Doubleday.

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

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

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) Working in the sawmill or gristmill.
(c) Working the farm or tending the gardens.
(d) Weaving cloth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last Foxfire book to be published under the contract with the New York Publisher?

2. Who wrote the articles in the Foxfire series?

3. What trade did Frank Moore have to learn because his family was so poor?

4. Which of the following are not ingredients Henry Youngblood used in his herbal remedies?

5. For what potentially fatal disease did Dr. Brabson develop a cure?

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