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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. What Christmas gifts did Nola Campbell receive as a child?
(a) New shoes, fruit, and nuts.
(b) Toys.
(c) New dresses and a coat.
(d) Apples, raisins, and a few pennies.

2. What remedy was used in the mountains for stings?
(a) Salt.
(b) A milkweed poultice.
(c) Castor oil.
(d) A dandelion green poultice.

3. Which traditional quilt pattern was composed entirely of hexagons?
(a) The drunkard's path quilt.
(b) The bear paw quilt.
(c) The "grandmother's flower garden" quilt.
(d) The Dresden plate quilt.

4. Why did Roy Roberts build kilns?
(a) To make charcoal.
(b) To bake bread.
(c) To burn coal.
(d) To make pottery.

5. Why did Nola Campbell's mother move the family off the reservation when Nola's father died?
(a) To work on a nearby farm.
(b) To send the children to a new school.
(c) To attend college.
(d) To be near her parents and siblings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the variety of embroidery stitches used by a young woman in quilting traditionally indicate about the woman?

2. What cure was used by Annie Henry for a nosebleed?

3. When was the general store operated by Patton D. Queen opened?

4. What was the ethnic background of Nola Campbell's mother?

5. What happened to Dr. Brabson's feet after long medical trips in cold weather?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did quilts illustrate the self-reliance and ingenuity of Appalachian women?

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

5. How have fictional stories treated foxfire and other glowing plants?

6. What were some of the Indian superstitions Nola Campbell encountered on the Catawba reservation?

7. In what way was quilting a social event for mountain women?

8. How did Bob McCall keep track of his customers' credit purchases in his general store when he couldn't read or write?

9. How did Flora Youngblood's father, Henry, learn herbal healing?

10. How did Earl Gillespie build a successful produce business?

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