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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did D. B. Dayton's family do with the eggs they raised on their farm?
(a) Traded them for other staples.
(b) Sold them to chicken breeders.
(c) Gave them to poor families to eat.
(d) Became chicken breeders.

2. What fruit did D. B. Dayton not know how to peel the first time he ate one?
(a) A nectarine.
(b) A banana.
(c) A peach.
(d) A papaya.

3. In what branch of the military did Jud serve in the 1940s?
(a) The Navy.
(b) The Army.
(c) The Air Force.
(d) The Marines.

4. What does Mitch Anderson recall there being in front of the Rothell cabin in his youth?
(a) A garden.
(b) A peony bush.
(c) A large maple tree.
(d) A statue.

5. What food sweetener did Jud's father make?
(a) Cane sugar.
(b) Maple syrup.
(c) Honey.
(d) Sorghum syrup.

6. Of what material was the building that housed Jud's business made?
(a) Adobe.
(b) Logs.
(c) Brick.
(d) Tin.

7. What did Henry Harrison Mayes promise God he would do if he survived the accident in his youth?
(a) Deliver God's word.
(b) Become a physician.
(c) Give his money to the poor.
(d) Build the town a new church.

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

9. What was done with the broken item left at Charles Phillips's funeral?
(a) It was burned in a bonfire.
(b) It was placed with the other stones at the praying rock.
(c) It was buried with Charles Phillips.
(d) It was discarded.

10. How did the Rothell family get hot water?
(a) They boiled it on the stove.
(b) They had hot and cold running water via their plumbing.
(c) They heated it in the fireplace.
(d) Their stove had a water tank to provide hot water.

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

12. What kind of mill did Jud and his uncle build?
(a) A sawmill.
(b) A syrup mill.
(c) A coffee mill.
(d) A gristmill.

13. What animal did Ada Crone think followed her home from the circus?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A panda.
(c) A hyena.
(d) A tiger.

14. What did Jud begin working on in 1934?
(a) Boats.
(b) Houses.
(c) Tractors.
(d) Wagons.

15. In what war did James Blair, the builder of the Rothell house, serve?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The War of 1812.
(d) The Revolutionary War.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the large log cabin called the Rothell house originally built?

2. In what season of the year did most of Jud's blacksmith customers pay for the work Jud had done for them?

3. When did the Foxfire organization purchase the Rothell house as a restoration project?

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

5. According to Ruth Holcomb, how long did people in her youth think it would take a person to go mad after being bitten by a rabid dog?

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