View a FREE sample

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

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) Ham.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Socks and shoes.
(d) Cake.

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

3. What business did Earl Gillespie operate in addition to a general store?
(a) A gristmill.
(b) A blacksmith shop.
(c) A coffee mill.
(d) A dental office.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what country did the Moore family emigrate in 1740?

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

4. Why have reviewers stopped reviewing the new books in the Foxfire series?

5. What kind of quilt did Edith Cannon's mother make all six of her daughters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What racial prejudice did Nola Campbell experience in her life?

2. What domestic tasks did Flora Youngblood learn to do from her mother?

3. What does Clyde Hollifield think foxfire is and how does he use it to make a body of water glow?

4. How did quilts illustrate the self-reliance and ingenuity of Appalachian women?

5. In what way was quilting a social event for mountain women?

6. For what purpose did Flora Youngblood first learn to make baskets and from what did she make her baskets?

7. What was Nola Campbell's childhood like?

8. What troubles did Irish Bill Moore have with roughriders after the Civil War?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,099 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample