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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Haint Tales and Other Scary Stories.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Roy Roberts, another owner of a general store, sell to the train engineers as they drove through his town?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Ham.
(c) Cake.
(d) Socks and shoes.

2. Which of the following activities was not attributed to panthers in Foxfire 9?
(a) Stealing and eating babies.
(b) Chasing a midwife as she traveled home.
(c) Sleeping in a henhouse.
(d) Chasing a woman on horseback.

3. What did Captain Irish Bill Moore and his wife Hattie often have to battle?
(a) Competition from other stores.
(b) Mice that infested the general store.
(c) Roughriders or bandits.
(d) Ants that infested the general store.

4. What work did Jud's wife Jenny do before she married?
(a) She was a nurse.
(b) She was a cook.
(c) She was a musician.
(d) She was a schoolteacher.

5. According to Ruth Holcomb, what did a bald eagle do to a baby?
(a) Snatched some of the baby's hair for its nest.
(b) Adopted the baby as an eaglet and brought it worms to eat.
(c) Bit the baby's face.
(d) Stole the baby from a carriage and took it to the nest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jud begin working on in 1934?

2. What was a madstone?

3. What did Jud Nelson's uncle do for a living?

4. What work did Jud do with mules for many of his neighbors?

5. What did Jud's family use during his childhood to ward off flu?

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