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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the general store operated by Patton D. Queen opened?
(a) In the 1800s.
(b) In the 1700s.
(c) In the 1950s.
(d) In the early 1900s.

2. What did Edith Cannon's mother use as a backing for her quilts?
(a) Old denim overalls.
(b) Cotton sheets.
(c) Wool.
(d) Feed sacks dyed with Rit dye.

3. How did many of the Moore's customers pay their bills at the general store?
(a) With loans from the Moore family.
(b) With credit cards.
(c) With scrip from the coal mines.
(d) With goods and services instead of cash.

4. What was the last Foxfire book to be published under the contract with the New York Publisher?
(a) Foxfire 10.
(b) Foxfire 9.
(c) Foxfire 15.
(d) Foxfire 20.

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

6. What did Aunt Arie call a "summer quilt"?
(a) A quilt with no filling or batting.
(b) A quilt with flowers or the sun embroidered on it.
(c) A quilt made of linen.
(d) A quilt made in the summer.

7. What problem arose due to the books in the Foxfire series presenting a range of topics in each volume?
(a) No single topic could be treated in depth.
(b) There were not enough interviewees for each volume.
(c) Too many photographs and drawings were needed.
(d) The number of interviews overwhelmed the staff.

8. Who wrote the chapter in Foxfire 9 entitled "Foxfire--What Is It"?
(a) Curt Haban.
(b) Earl Hamner.
(c) John Gresham.
(d) Eliot Wigginton.

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

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

11. In making a traditional fan quilt, what was considered a sign of a sloppy quilter?
(a) Making big, far-apart lines of stitching.
(b) Using thread and fabric that didn't match each other in color.
(c) Uneven fans.
(d) Uneven quilt squares.

12. Who taught Nola Campbell to make pottery?
(a) Her schoolteacher.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) The Catawbas.

13. In the section of Foxfire 9 entitled "The General Store," how did the illiterate general store owner keep track of outstanding debts owed to him for items his customers had purchased on credit?
(a) He trusted his customers to remember how much they owed.
(b) He relied on his memory.
(c) He drew pictures of the items purchased.
(d) He hired a clerk who could read and write to track his debts.

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

15. Which of the following are not ingredients Henry Youngblood used in his herbal remedies?
(a) Hog lard.
(b) Alum.
(c) Aluminum.
(d) Whiskey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which traditional quilt pattern was composed entirely of hexagons?

2. As a young girl, what did Flora learn to make from honeysuckle vines?

3. Why did Roy Roberts build kilns?

4. What office did Nola Campbell's husband Raymond Harris have in the tribe for three years?

5. When Foxfire 9 was published, how many years had the Foxfire organization been in the Rabun County schools?

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