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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what material was the building that housed Jud's business made?
(a) Adobe.
(b) Logs.
(c) Tin.
(d) Brick.

2. What did Charles Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a missionary Baptist preacher.
(b) He raised thoroughbred horses.
(c) He was a physician.
(d) He owned a general store.

3. What work did Jud's wife Jenny do before she married?
(a) She was a cook.
(b) She was a musician.
(c) She was a schoolteacher.
(d) She was a nurse.

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

5. What did other blacksmiths ride a horse ten or fifteen miles to get Jud's uncle to do for them?
(a) Shoe a mule.
(b) Temper a gun spring.
(c) Sharpen their tools.
(d) Play the fiddle.

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

7. In what branch of the military did Jud serve in the 1940s?
(a) The Navy.
(b) The Marines.
(c) The Air Force.
(d) The Army.

8. What product did D.B. Dayton sell that earned him enough money to build a store?
(a) Produce.
(b) Timber.
(c) Hogs.
(d) Fish.

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

10. What did D. B. Dayton's family do with the eggs they raised on their farm?
(a) Sold them to chicken breeders.
(b) Gave them to poor families to eat.
(c) Became chicken breeders.
(d) Traded them for other staples.

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

12. What kind of work did Jud do in the military?
(a) Blacksmithing.
(b) He was in the infantry.
(c) Medical work.
(d) Journalism for military publications.

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

14. In what season of the year did most of Jud's blacksmith customers pay for the work Jud had done for them?
(a) Summer.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

15. What did Henry Harrison Mayes set as his goal?
(a) Owning a general store.
(b) Learning how to be a blacksmith.
(c) Earning a college degree after age thirty.
(d) Bringing the word of God to everyone on earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal did Ada Crone think followed her home from the circus?

2. According to the tale Ada Crone told Carol Ramey, what haunted the Roane graveyard and followed people around there?

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

4. What were panthers sometimes called in the mountains of Appalachia?

5. What fruit did D. B. Dayton not know how to peel the first time he ate one?

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