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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jud's father do for a living?
(a) He was a hotel cook.
(b) He was a banker.
(c) He was a preacher.
(d) He was a carpenter and cotton farmer.

2. What did Charles Phillips use stones to indicate?
(a) His prayer requests.
(b) The saved and unsaved souls for whom he had prayed.
(c) The number of cattle in his herd.
(d) His children's ages.

3. When did Jud and his siblings receive new shoes, cheese, and soda?
(a) At Easter.
(b) On their birthdays.
(c) At Christmas.
(d) Whenever their father sold cotton.

4. What did the house serve as during Mitch Anderson's youth?
(a) A school.
(b) A gathering place for locals.
(c) A general store.
(d) A church.

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

6. When did Charles Phillips learn to read?
(a) In 1956 when he was called by God to serve as a preacher.
(b) In 1960 after he married a woman who could read.
(c) As a young boy in school.
(d) In his fifties thanks to a literacy tutor.

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

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

9. From what profession did Henry Harrison Mayes retire?
(a) Practicing law.
(b) Coal mining.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Farming.

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

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

12. What work did D. B. Dayton do for the WPA during the Depression?
(a) Built a bridge.
(b) Grew cotton.
(c) Built roads & hauled acid wood, tanbark, and fence posts.
(d) Surveyed land and made maps.

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

14. What kind of mill did Jud and his uncle build?
(a) A syrup mill.
(b) A gristmill.
(c) A coffee mill.
(d) A sawmill.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Charles Phillips do for a living?

2. When was Jud Nelson born?

3. Of what material was the building that housed Jud's business made?

4. According to Ethel Corn, how did Octy Mcall scare away a panther she found sitting in her open cabin window?

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

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