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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fruit did D. B. Dayton not know how to peel the first time he ate one?
(a) A banana.
(b) A peach.
(c) A nectarine.
(d) A papaya.

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

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

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

5. On what kind of beds did D. B. Dayton and his family sleep during D. B.'s childhood?
(a) They slept on the cabin floor without beds.
(b) Feather beds.
(c) Straw beds.
(d) Beds with cornshuck mattresses.

6. According to Ruth Holcomb, what did a bald eagle do to a baby?
(a) Bit the baby's face.
(b) Stole the baby from a carriage and took it to the nest.
(c) Snatched some of the baby's hair for its nest.
(d) Adopted the baby as an eaglet and brought it worms to eat.

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

8. 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.

9. What changes were made to the upstairs of the Rothell house?
(a) The wallpaper was changed from blue to yellow.
(b) Most of the bedrooms were changed to sewing rooms.
(c) The wooden floors were carpeted.
(d) It was painted and a new room was added.

10. During Mitch Anderson's youth, who lived in the little house that was behind the Rothell house?
(a) Mrs. Rothell's mother and father.
(b) Mr. Rothell's mother.
(c) Sarah Elrod, the Rothell family servant.
(d) The Rothell family's eldest son and his wife.

11. Which of the following activities was not attributed to panthers in Foxfire 9?
(a) Chasing a woman on horseback.
(b) Chasing a midwife as she traveled home.
(c) Stealing and eating babies.
(d) Sleeping in a henhouse.

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

13. What did Jud begin working on in 1934?
(a) Houses.
(b) Boats.
(c) Wagons.
(d) Tractors.

14. What was the only time of the year that D. B. Dayton's family used the eggs they raised on their farm?
(a) On Christmas.
(b) On D. B.'s birthday.
(c) On Easter when the eggs would be dyed.
(d) On New Year's Day.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Henry Harrison Mayes set as his goal?

3. What food sweetener did Jud's father make?

4. What did Charles Phillips use stones to indicate?

5. When was the large log cabin called the Rothell house originally built?

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