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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 did Roy Roberts, another owner of a general store, sell to the train engineers as they drove through his town?
(a) Socks and shoes.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Cake.
(d) Ham.

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

3. 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) Less than ten dollars.
(b) Ten to twenty dollars.
(c) Fifty to a hundred dollars.
(d) One to two hundred dollars.

4. How were the topics to be featured in the new series of books from Foxfire Press determined?
(a) By running a contest on the Internet.
(b) By distributing a questionnaire to the magazine subscribers.
(c) By letting the people interviewed vote on the topics.
(d) By picking topics at random.

5. Who wrote the chapter in Foxfire 9 entitled "Foxfire--What Is It"?
(a) Eliot Wigginton.
(b) Curt Haban.
(c) John Gresham.
(d) Earl Hamner.

Short Answer 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?

2. What did the variety of embroidery stitches used by a young woman in quilting traditionally indicate about the woman?

3. Who wrote the Introduction to Foxfire 9?

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

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?

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