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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Carolyn Stradley.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Flora learn to boil honeysuckle vines with to remove the bark?
(a) Washing powder.
(b) Turpentine.
(c) Vinegar.
(d) Baking soda.

2. What jobs did Carolyn Stradley work as a young girl to support herself ?
(a) She babysat neighbor children and cleaned schools.
(b) She picked berries.
(c) She picked cotton.
(d) She ironed other people's clothing.

3. How did Flora's family get their clothing?
(a) Her father bought it from a catalog.
(b) Her mother sewed it.
(c) They got hand me downs from relatives.
(d) Their mother bought it at the general store.

4. What did Jud Nelson's uncle do for a living?
(a) He was a physician.
(b) He was a deputy sheriff.
(c) He was a blacksmith, a fiddle player, and a wood carver.
(d) He was a piano teacher.

5. Why did Carolyn Stradley's family move back and forth to Atlanta often during her childhood?
(a) Her father was hiding from the law.
(b) Her mother maried and divorced several times.
(c) Her father worked many jobs.
(d) Her father and mother kept selling their homes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of business did Jud open at age twenty-two?

2. What did D. B. Dayton's father work for instead of money?

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

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

5. What were panthers sometimes called in the mountains of Appalachia?

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