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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life Is Good.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what season of the year did most of Jud's blacksmith customers pay for the work Jud had done for them?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Autumn.

2. What did Henry Harrison Mayes promise God he would do if he survived the accident in his youth?
(a) Build the town a new church.
(b) Deliver God's word.
(c) Give his money to the poor.
(d) Become a physician.

3. What did other blacksmiths ride a horse ten or fifteen miles to get Jud's uncle to do for them?
(a) Temper a gun spring.
(b) Sharpen their tools.
(c) Play the fiddle.
(d) Shoe a mule.

4. Which of the following was not a quilt pattern traditionally made in Appalachia?
(a) The Joseph coat of many colors.
(b) The log cabin.
(c) The spider web.
(d) The cat's paw.

5. 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) Thrush.
(b) Ulcers.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Pneumonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of quilt did Edith Cannon's mother make all six of her daughters?

2. 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?

3. As a young girl, what did Flora learn to make from honeysuckle vines?

4. What did Captain Irish Bill Moore and his wife Hattie often have to battle?

5. What did Roy Roberts, another owner of a general store, sell to the train engineers as they drove through his town?

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