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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Nola Campbell's parents have?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Seven.

2. What remedy was used in the mountains for constipation?
(a) Honey.
(b) Castor oil.
(c) Chamomile tea.
(d) Butcher's bloom tea.

3. What happened once the 99-year period for which Nola Campbell's tribe leased their land to the American government ended?
(a) The government bought the land.
(b) The government kept the land without paying for it.
(c) The lease was renewed for another 99 years.
(d) The government returned the land to the tribe.

4. Who raised the sheep that produced the wool from which Edith Cannon's mother made her quilt batting?
(a) The Cannon family.
(b) The Cannon's neighbors, the Roanes.
(c) Sarah Wilson.
(d) Eloy Kennedy.

5. When was the general store operated by Patton D. Queen opened?
(a) In the 1700s.
(b) In the 1800s.
(c) In the early 1900s.
(d) In the 1950s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught Nola Campbell to make pottery?

2. In the section of Foxfire 9 entitled "The General Store," how did the illiterate general store owner keep track of outstanding debts owed to him for items his customers had purchased on credit?

3. Which of the following was not a quilt pattern traditionally made in Appalachia?

4. Which of the following are not ingredients Henry Youngblood used in his herbal remedies?

5. Why did Roy Roberts build kilns?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Roy Roberts build a kiln and how did the business that resulted from the building of his kiln fare?

2. What are some of the home remedies that Flora Youngblood's father, Henry, used?

3. What does Clyde Hollifield think foxfire is and how does he use it to make a body of water glow?

4. Why did Nola Campbell spend part of her childhood on the Catawba Indian reservation?

5. For what purpose did Flora Youngblood first learn to make baskets and from what did she make her baskets?

6. Explain what foxfire is and what makes it glow.

7. What was "milk sickness"?

8. What does foxfire feel like and where are the best places to find it?

9. What domestic tasks did Flora Youngblood learn to do from her mother?

10. What troubles did Irish Bill Moore have with roughriders after the Civil War?

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