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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What materials were used by Aunt Arie Carpenter in the making of most of her quilts?
(a) Gingham and calico bought at the general store.
(b) Scraps from her family's clothing.
(c) Wool woven at her home.
(d) Scraps of material from neighbors' clothing.

3. What food sweetener did Jud's father make?
(a) Cane sugar.
(b) Maple syrup.
(c) Honey.
(d) Sorghum syrup.

4. What did Nola Campbell and her sisters use as baby dolls when they were too poor to have real dolls?
(a) A cornshuck.
(b) A stick they clothed in scraps of cloth.
(c) Kittens and puppies.
(d) Two pieces of cloth with a string tied around them.

5. What was the last Foxfire book to be published under the contract with the New York Publisher?
(a) Foxfire 9.
(b) Foxfire 20.
(c) Foxfire 10.
(d) Foxfire 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what have glowing plants like foxfire been associated over the ages?

2. What kind of accident was Henry Harrison Mayes involved in when he was a young man?

3. What was the third book published by Foxfire Press?

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

5. Who wrote the Introduction to Foxfire 9?

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