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

2. Why did Henry Harrison Mayes set a goal to put signs on other planets?
(a) He believes it's his divine mission.
(b) He always wanted to be an astronaut.
(c) He once saw a UFO.
(d) He believes this planet will be used up soon.

3. When did the Foxfire organization purchase the Rothell house as a restoration project?
(a) In 1983.
(b) In 2010.
(c) In 1959.
(d) In 2000.

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

5. What work did Jud do with mules for many of his neighbors?
(a) He bought and sold and traded them.
(b) He shoed them.
(c) He ploughed with them.
(d) He groomed them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What product did D.B. Dayton sell that earned him enough money to build a store?

2. At what specific place did Charles Phillips one day feel compelled to go pray?

3. What was done with the broken item left at Charles Phillips's funeral?

4. What did the people interviewed in Foxfire 9 say that the scream of a panther sounds like?

5. In what branch of the military did Jud serve in the 1940s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of work did D. B. Dayton do for the WPA during the Depression?

2. Why did Henry Harrison Mayes once attend a strip show and what consequences arose because of his going to the show?

3. What object was left at Charles Phillips' funeral and how did that object help commemorate Phillips' ministry?

4. What were some mountain superstitions reported in the chapter entitled "Haint Tales and Other Scary Stories" in Foxfire 9?

5. At what specific place did Charles Phillips feel led to pray and how did he use pebbles to record information about the people for whom he prayed?

6. What role did the Rothell house have in the lives of local teachers?

7. What incident in Henry Harrison Mayes's youth led to his desire to bring the word of God to others?

8. What home remedies were used in Jud Nelson's youth to ward off the flu?

9. How did Jud Nelson get started in the blacksmithing business?

10. What changes did the Rothell family make to the upstairs of their home during Mitch Anderson's youth and why did they make those changes?

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