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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened after Henry Harrison Mayes attended the strip show?
(a) He was arrested when the show was raised by police.
(b) The people in the strip show repented & joined his church.
(c) He fell in love with one of the women in the show.
(d) His church questioned his actions and he left the church.

2. What helped people interviewed in Foxfire 9 escape panthers when they were being pursued by these wild animals?
(a) They would make loud noises to scare the panthers away.
(b) They would enter a stream since panthers don't like water.
(c) They outran the panthers.
(d) Their hunting dogs or the rearing of their horses.

3. What kind of business did Jud open at age twenty-two?
(a) A blacksmith shop.
(b) A general store.
(c) A candy shop.
(d) A carpentry business.

4. From what material did D. B. Dayton and his family make clotheslines on which to hang their hand washed clothing during D. B.'s childhood?
(a) Rawhide.
(b) Rope.
(c) Telephone wires.
(d) Metal chains.

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

6. Why did Henry Harrison Mayes once attend a strip show?
(a) To protest the show.
(b) To understand it before he stood against it.
(c) He had a crush on a dancer.
(d) To preach at the audience and the dancers.

7. In what war did James Blair, the builder of the Rothell house, serve?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Revolutionary War.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The War of 1812.

8. What kind of signs has Henry Harrison Mayes made since his youthful accident?
(a) Traffic signs.
(b) Signs advertising soda pop.
(c) Signs to remind humans to repent of sin and accept God.
(d) Signs advertising local businesses.

9. According to Jennie Arrowood, how did a fiddler evade a panther after him?
(a) By screaming loudly and scaring the animal away.
(b) By climbing a tree & playing the fiddle to scare the panther.
(c) By outrunning the animal.
(d) By hitting the animal with a big stick.

10. What did Jud's family use during his childhood to ward off flu?
(a) Honey and turpentine.
(b) Castor oil.
(c) A mixture of sorghum and sulfur.
(d) Epsom salts.

11. How much did Jud pay for his first business?
(a) Fifty dollars.
(b) One hundred dollars.
(c) Five hundred dollars.
(d) One thousand dollars.

12. What did the people interviewed in Foxfire 9 say that the scream of a panther sounds like?
(a) A crying baby.
(b) A police siren.
(c) The scream of a human being.
(d) A nail on a blackboard.

13. According to the tale Ada Crone told Carol Ramey, what haunted the Roane graveyard and followed people around there?
(a) A ghost child.
(b) A ghost dog.
(c) A light.
(d) A ghost sheep.

14. When did the Rothell house get electricity installed?
(a) In 1980.
(b) After Mitch Anderson got home from World War II.
(c) During the Depression.
(d) In 1953.

15. What were panthers sometimes called in the mountains of Appalachia?
(a) Painters.
(b) Monsters.
(c) Critters.
(d) Panters.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Jud Nelson born?

2. What broken item was left at Charles Phillips's funeral?

3. What changes were made to the upstairs of the Rothell house?

4. What did D. B. Dayton and his family eat for dinner when they picked clay peas?

5. During Mitch Anderson's youth, who lived in the little house that was behind the Rothell house?

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