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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 home remedies did D. B. Dayton's family use for illnesses?
(a) Honey and dandelion greens.
(b) Chamomile tea and ginseng.
(c) Turpentine, castor oil, salts, and soot.
(d) Sulfur, molasses, and alum.

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 once saw a UFO.
(c) He believes this planet will be used up soon.
(d) He always wanted to be an astronaut.

3. What kind of business did Jud open at age twenty-two?
(a) A candy shop.
(b) A carpentry business.
(c) A blacksmith shop.
(d) A general store.

4. What did Charles Phillips use stones to indicate?
(a) The number of cattle in his herd.
(b) His prayer requests.
(c) His children's ages.
(d) The saved and unsaved souls for whom he had prayed.

5. What work did D. B. Dayton do for the WPA during the Depression?
(a) Surveyed land and made maps.
(b) Built roads & hauled acid wood, tanbark, and fence posts.
(c) Built a bridge.
(d) Grew cotton.

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. According to Jennie Arrowood, how did a fiddler evade a panther after him?

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

4. According to the tale Ada Crone told Carol Ramey, what haunted the Roane graveyard and followed people around there?

5. Of what material was the building that housed Jud's business made?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways was the Rothell home a gathering place for people in the community?

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

3. What tales arose in the Appalachian mountains over the years about rabid dogs?

4. What role did cotton play in Jud Nelson's family life when Jud was a boy?

5. What kind of medical care did D. B. Dayton receive during his childhood?

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

7. What kind of syrup did Jud Nelson's father and uncles make and for what was the syrup used during Jud's youth?

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

9. What happened to D. B. Dayton's mother to cripple her?

10. What kinds of foods did D. B. Dayton and his family eat during D. B.'s childhood?

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