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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business did Earl Gillespie operate in addition to a general store?

2. What did Aunt Arie call a "summer quilt"?

3. When Flora's mother got shot in the shoulder, what kind of poultice was applied to her wound?

4. Who raised the sheep that produced the wool from which Edith Cannon's mother made her quilt batting?

5. What was the subject of the first book published by Foxfire Press?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were some of the unusual features of Nola Campbell's pottery?

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

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

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

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

7. What was the difference between a summer quilt and a winter quilt?

8. From whom did Nola Campbell learn to make pottery?

9. What was "milk sickness"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the various strategies employed by general store owners to help their customers survive the Great Depression. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concept of superstition in Foxfire 9 and compare and contrast the Native American superstitions that Nola Campbell mentions in her interview with the superstitions others mention in their interviews. Include the superstitions mentioned in the section on folk remedies and the superstitions mentioned in the section on haint tales and other scary stories.

Essay Topic 3

Foxfire 9 is the last in a series of books published by Doubleday. In the future, the Foxfire organization plans to print books through its own publishing house. Discuss the Foxfire publishing house and how the titles Foxfire hopes to print through its own publishing house will differ in focus from Foxfire 9. What advantages will having their own publishing house bring to Foxfire organization? What advantages will Foxfire's publishing house bring to the Appalachian community? How will having their own publishing house further the Foxfire mission? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

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