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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the number of accounts held by women at the Moore's general store compare to the number of accounts held by men?
(a) Few accounts were held by women.
(b) No accounts were held by women.
(c) Most accounts were held by women.
(d) All accounts were held by women.

2. What were the fascinators sold in general stores?
(a) Wooden toys for babies.
(b) Candy made from dried apples and honey.
(c) Handheld mirrors.
(d) Crocheted, triangular shawls to cover the head & shoulders.

3. What kind of glaze did Nola Campbell learn to put on her pottery?
(a) A glaze made of glass.
(b) A thin, water-based glaze.
(c) A shellac.
(d) Her pots are unglazed.

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

5. Why did Nola Campbell only attend school through the fifth grade?
(a) Her parents didn't believe in formal education for girls.
(b) She got ill and had to stay home.
(c) She had to work to support her family.
(d) Indians weren't allowed to go further in school.

6. What office did Nola Campbell's father have in the church?
(a) He taught Sunday school.
(b) He was the choir director.
(c) He was the pastor.
(d) He was a deacon.

7. How old was Nola Campbell when her father died?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Forty.

8. Who wrote the articles in the Foxfire series?
(a) High school teachers in Rabun County, Gerogia.
(b) Professional authors hired by the Foxfire organization.
(c) High school students in Rabun County, Georgia.
(d) College history professors.

9. Why have reviewers stopped reviewing the new books in the Foxfire series?
(a) They can find little new to say about the series.
(b) They hate the series.
(c) They think the series is too old-fashioned.
(d) They think the series has received too much publicity.

10. What did Aunt Arie call a "summer quilt"?
(a) A quilt with flowers or the sun embroidered on it.
(b) A quilt with no filling or batting.
(c) A quilt made in the summer.
(d) A quilt made of linen.

11. What was the customary occasion on which to give a friendship quilt to someone in the Appalachian mountains in the 1890s?
(a) At their wedding.
(b) On their eighteenth birthday.
(c) To commemorate the birth of a child.
(d) On their birthday.

12. What was the name of the general store the Moore family established?
(a) The Moore Grocery Store.
(b) The Rabun Gap General Store.
(c) Moore's General Store.
(d) The Fort Hembree store.

13. Where did Flora Youngblood's father Henry learn herbal doctoring and faith healing?
(a) At Atlanta University Medical School.
(b) On an Indian reservation.
(c) At his church.
(d) At Berea College.

14. How did many of the Moore's customers pay their bills at the general store?
(a) With loans from the Moore family.
(b) With scrip from the coal mines.
(c) With goods and services instead of cash.
(d) With credit cards.

15. 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?
(a) He relied on his memory.
(b) He trusted his customers to remember how much they owed.
(c) He drew pictures of the items purchased.
(d) He hired a clerk who could read and write to track his debts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not a stitch Aunt Arie Carpenter used in making her quilts?

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

3. What trade did Frank Moore have to learn because his family was so poor?

4. What was the subject of the first book published by Foxfire Press?

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

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