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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jud Nelson's uncle do for a living?
(a) He was a blacksmith, a fiddle player, and a wood carver.
(b) He was a deputy sheriff.
(c) He was a physician.
(d) He was a piano teacher.

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

3. According to Ethel Corn, how did Octy Mcall scare away a panther she found sitting in her open cabin window?
(a) With fire.
(b) By screaming loudly and banging her pots and pans.
(c) By throwing a knife at the panther.
(d) With a pan of boiling water.

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

5. 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 ghost dog.
(c) A light.
(d) A ghost child.

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

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

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

9. 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) The Rothell family's eldest son and his wife.
(c) Mr. Rothell's mother.
(d) Sarah Elrod, the Rothell family servant.

10. What was done with the broken item left at Charles Phillips's funeral?
(a) It was buried with Charles Phillips.
(b) It was discarded.
(c) It was burned in a bonfire.
(d) It was placed with the other stones at the praying rock.

11. When Jud was seventeen, for whom did he work?
(a) The local sheriff.
(b) The local preacher.
(c) The local tanner.
(d) A local blacksmith.

12. According to Ruth Holcomb, how long did people in her youth think it would take a person to go mad after being bitten by a rabid dog?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) A week.
(c) A month.
(d) Nine days.

13. When was Jud Nelson born?
(a) In 1913.
(b) In 1890.
(c) In 1900.
(d) In 1800.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season of the year did most of Jud's blacksmith customers pay for the work Jud had done for them?

2. When did Jud and his siblings receive new shoes, cheese, and soda?

3. In what war did James Blair, the builder of the Rothell house, serve?

4. What home remedies did D. B. Dayton's family use for illnesses?

5. What did other blacksmiths ride a horse ten or fifteen miles to get Jud's uncle to do for them?

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