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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was another name for the churn dash quilt pattern?
(a) The butter pounder.
(b) The butter maker.
(c) The monkey wrench.
(d) The dasher.

3. In making a traditional fan quilt, why did the lines of stitching have to be close together?
(a) To outline the fan shape.
(b) To look like embroidery.
(c) To hold the cotton padding in place.
(d) To hold the fan appliques onto the quilt squares.

4. What were crazy quilts?
(a) Quilts with both stripes and polka dots.
(b) Friendship quilts, personalized and presented as a gift.
(c) Quilts stitched in a hurry.
(d) Quilts made in asymmetrical patterns.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What award was won by the first book Foxfire Press published?

4. What Appalachian photographer photographed Appalachian mountain scenes during the Depression and left a collection of photographs that Foxfire Press wants to publish?

5. What information did quilters traditionally embroider on their quilt squares when making a friendship quilt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the home remedies that Flora Youngblood's father, Henry, used?

2. How did Flora Youngblood's father, Henry, learn herbal healing?

3. How did Ed and Martha Roane help their customers get through the depression?

4. What goods were sold at the Fort Hembree store operated by the Moore family and what do the ledgers of the store from the 1840s reveal about the shopping habits of the era?

5. How did Bob McCall keep track of his customers' credit purchases in his general store when he couldn't read or write?

6. Explain what foxfire is and what makes it glow.

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

8. What was Nola Campbell's childhood like?

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

10. What was "milk sickness"?

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