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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trade did Frank Moore have to learn because his family was so poor?
(a) Pottery making.
(b) Blacksmithing.
(c) Trapping animals for fur trading.
(d) Gunsmithing.

2. What was the name of the general store the Moore family established?
(a) The Fort Hembree store.
(b) The Rabun Gap General Store.
(c) The Moore Grocery Store.
(d) Moore's General Store.

3. For what potentially fatal disease did Dr. Brabson develop a cure?
(a) Measles.
(b) Diptheria.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Milk sickness.

4. What office did Nola Campbell's husband Raymond Harris have in the tribe for three years?
(a) He was chief of the tribe.
(b) He was the tribe's accountant.
(c) He was the tribe's police chief.
(d) He was the tribe's medicine man.

5. What were the fascinators sold in general stores?
(a) Candy made from dried apples and honey.
(b) Handheld mirrors.
(c) Crocheted, triangular shawls to cover the head & shoulders.
(d) Wooden toys for babies.

6. What did Nola Campbell and her sisters use as baby dolls when they were too poor to have real dolls?
(a) A stick they clothed in scraps of cloth.
(b) Kittens and puppies.
(c) A cornshuck.
(d) Two pieces of cloth with a string tied around them.

7. What kind of glaze did Nola Campbell learn to put on her pottery?
(a) A shellac.
(b) A thin, water-based glaze.
(c) A glaze made of glass.
(d) Her pots are unglazed.

8. What religion was Nola Campbell's family?
(a) Hindu.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Mormon.

9. What cure was used by Annie Henry for a nosebleed?
(a) Holding ice on the back of the head.
(b) Holding ice under the nose.
(c) Letting the nose bleed on a knife and then burying the knife.
(d) Tea made from dandelion greens.

10. Which of the following was not an ingredient in the home remedies listed in Foxfire 9?
(a) Kerosene.
(b) Castor oil.
(c) Roses.
(d) Apples.

11. What kind of work did Nola Campbell do at age 6?
(a) She groomed horses.
(b) She worked the cotton fields.
(c) She babysat for neighboring families.
(d) She helped her mother sew and knit.

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

13. Where did Flora Youngblood's father Henry learn herbal doctoring and faith healing?
(a) At his church.
(b) At Atlanta University Medical School.
(c) At Berea College.
(d) On an Indian reservation.

14. What was the subject of the first book published by Foxfire Press?
(a) Making lye soap.
(b) Square dancing.
(c) Aunt Arie Carpenter.
(d) Raising hogs and chickens.

15. Why did Nola Campbell only attend school through the fifth grade?
(a) She got ill and had to stay home.
(b) Indians weren't allowed to go further in school.
(c) Her parents didn't believe in formal education for girls.
(d) She had to work to support her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a form of payment that Henry Youngblood accepted for his herbal doctoring?

2. What was the last Foxfire book to be published under the contract with the New York Publisher?

3. How old was Flora when she got married?

4. What did Flora learn to boil honeysuckle vines with to remove the bark?

5. How much education did Frank Moore receive?

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