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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What home remedies did D. B. Dayton's family use for illnesses?
(a) Turpentine, castor oil, salts, and soot.
(b) Honey and dandelion greens.
(c) Sulfur, molasses, and alum.
(d) Chamomile tea and ginseng.

2. At what holiday would D. B. Dayton's father get drunk?
(a) Easter.
(b) Memorial Day.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Halloween.

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

4. What was a madstone?
(a) A white stone worn to ward off diptheria.
(b) A blue stone used to treat depression.
(c) A stone thought to cure insanity in people.
(d) A stone from a deer's stomach that was used to cure rabies.

5. When did the Foxfire organization purchase the Rothell house as a restoration project?
(a) In 2010.
(b) In 1983.
(c) In 1959.
(d) In 2000.

6. Where was D. B. Dayton cared for when he developed tuberculosis as a child?
(a) At a sanitarium.
(b) At home.
(c) At his grandparents' home.
(d) At a hospital.

7. From which U.S. president did Henry Harrison Mayes solicit assistance in getting the highway department to allow him to place his signs?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

8. What did D. B. Dayton's father work for instead of money?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Shelter.
(c) Food.
(d) Medical care for an ailing child.

9. What job did D. B. Dayton and his family have at the Vogel Lumber Company?
(a) Saw operating.
(b) Selling the lumber.
(c) Fire watching to make sure no fires burned the rail fences.
(d) Lumber stacking.

10. What did D. B. Dayton's family sell for extra money during his childhood?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Apples.
(c) Sassafras.
(d) Walnuts.

11. What work did Jud do with mules for many of his neighbors?
(a) He ploughed with them.
(b) He shoed them.
(c) He groomed them.
(d) He bought and sold and traded them.

12. What did D. B. Dayton and his family eat for dinner when they picked clay peas?
(a) Buttermilk and baked sweet potatoes.
(b) Catfish and turnip greens.
(c) Fried chicken and mashed potatoes.
(d) Pinto beans and cornbread.

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

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

15. How much money have Henry Harrison Mayes and his wife put into his signs?
(a) $1,000
(b) $500.
(c) Nearly $75,000.
(d) $10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following activities was not attributed to panthers in Foxfire 9?

2. What kind of shoes did D. B. Dayton wear in the summer as a child?

3. What did Henry Harrison Mayes promise God he would do if he survived the accident in his youth?

4. How did the Rothell family get hot water?

5. What was done with the broken item left at Charles Phillips's funeral?

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