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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Appalachian photographer photographed Appalachian mountain scenes during the Depression and left a collection of photographs that Foxfire Press wants to publish?
(a) Amos McGee.
(b) R. A. Romanes.
(c) Tom Whitfield.
(d) Horace Jamison.

2. What kind of work did Nola Campbell do at age 6?
(a) She worked the cotton fields.
(b) She groomed horses.
(c) She helped her mother sew and knit.
(d) She babysat for neighboring families.

3. Approximately how many quilt patterns has the Foxfire organization collected over the years?
(a) Fifty.
(b) A million.
(c) A dozen.
(d) Ten.

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

5. In what year was Flora Youngblood born?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1906.

6. What trade did Frank Moore have to learn because his family was so poor?
(a) Gunsmithing.
(b) Pottery making.
(c) Trapping animals for fur trading.
(d) Blacksmithing.

7. Why did Roy Roberts build kilns?
(a) To make charcoal.
(b) To make pottery.
(c) To bake bread.
(d) To burn coal.

8. According to Foxfire researchers, what amount of money did most people spend in the Moore general store during the course of a year in the early days of the store's operation?
(a) Ten to twenty dollars.
(b) Fifty to a hundred dollars.
(c) Less than ten dollars.
(d) One to two hundred dollars.

9. Which of the following is not a form of payment that Henry Youngblood accepted for his herbal doctoring?
(a) A service.
(b) A credit card.
(c) Money.
(d) Barter.

10. What did Roy Roberts, another owner of a general store, sell to the train engineers as they drove through his town?
(a) Ham.
(b) Socks and shoes.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Cake.

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

12. What happened once the 99-year period for which Nola Campbell's tribe leased their land to the American government ended?
(a) The government bought the land.
(b) The lease was renewed for another 99 years.
(c) The government returned the land to the tribe.
(d) The government kept the land without paying for it.

13. Who wrote the Introduction to Foxfire 9?
(a) Elliot Wigginton.
(b) Joyce Carol Oates.
(c) John Gresham.
(d) Earl Hamner.

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

15. Which of the following are not ingredients Henry Youngblood used in his herbal remedies?
(a) Alum.
(b) Hog lard.
(c) Aluminum.
(d) Whiskey.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Flora when she got married?

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

3. 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?

4. How did Flora's family get their clothing?

5. When Foxfire 9 was published, how many years had the Foxfire organization been in the Rabun County schools?

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