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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What remedy was used in the mountains for hiccups?
(a) Turpentine and molasses.
(b) Sulphur and molasses.
(c) Cold water.
(d) Vinegar.

2. 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) Working in the sawmill or gristmill.
(b) Working the farm or tending the gardens.
(c) Weaving cloth.
(d) Helping with the cattle.

3. When Foxfire 9 was published, how many years had the Foxfire organization been in the Rabun County schools?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twelve.

4. Who raised the sheep that produced the wool from which Edith Cannon's mother made her quilt batting?
(a) Eloy Kennedy.
(b) The Cannon family.
(c) The Cannon's neighbors, the Roanes.
(d) Sarah Wilson.

5. What business did Earl Gillespie operate in addition to a general store?
(a) A blacksmith shop.
(b) A coffee mill.
(c) A gristmill.
(d) A dental office.

6. What happened to Dr. Brabson's feet after long medical trips in cold weather?
(a) They developed a rash.
(b) They developed blisters.
(c) They froze to his to stirrups.
(d) They became swollen and sore.

7. Which traditional quilt pattern was composed entirely of hexagons?
(a) The bear paw quilt.
(b) The Dresden plate quilt.
(c) The drunkard's path quilt.
(d) The "grandmother's flower garden" quilt.

8. In making a traditional fan quilt, what was considered a sign of a sloppy quilter?
(a) Uneven quilt squares.
(b) Uneven fans.
(c) Using thread and fabric that didn't match each other in color.
(d) Making big, far-apart lines of stitching.

9. What cure was used by Annie Henry for a nosebleed?
(a) Holding ice under the nose.
(b) Holding ice on the back of the head.
(c) Letting the nose bleed on a knife and then burying the knife.
(d) Tea made from dandelion greens.

10. What kind of quilt did Edith Cannon's mother make all six of her daughters?
(a) A Dutch doll quilt.
(b) A drunkard's path quilt.
(c) A Dresden plate quilt.
(d) An Irish chain quilt.

11. What was another name for the churn dash quilt pattern?
(a) The butter pounder.
(b) The monkey wrench.
(c) The dasher.
(d) The butter maker.

12. What award was won by the first book Foxfire Press published?
(a) A Pulitzer Prize.
(b) A Caldecott Medal.
(c) A Christopher award.
(d) A Nebula.

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

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

15. For what potentially fatal disease did Dr. Brabson develop a cure?
(a) Milk sickness.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Diptheria.
(d) Measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were crazy quilts?

2. Which of the following was not an ingredient in the home remedies listed in Foxfire 9?

3. How did the number of accounts held by women at the Moore's general store compare to the number of accounts held by men?

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

5. What did Edith Cannon's mother use as a backing for her quilts?

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