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

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

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

4. What was the ethnic background of Nola Campbell's father?
(a) He was African American.
(b) He was Japanese.
(c) He was Caucasian.
(d) He was full Catawba Indian.

5. What information did quilters traditionally embroider on their quilt squares when making a friendship quilt?
(a) The name of the recipient of the quilt.
(b) The name and birthdate of the recipient of the quilt.
(c) Their name and perhaps the date.
(d) Good wishes for the recipient of the quilt.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what animals did a boy once pay Roy Roberts?

2. What religion was Nola Campbell's family?

3. What was the ethnic background of Nola Campbell's mother?

4. When Nola Campbell's sister cut off Nola's toe during their childhood, what did their mother use on the wound?

5. Which of the following was not a quilt pattern traditionally made in Appalachia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was a crazy quilt?

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

3. Describe some of the quilt patterns mentioned in Foxfire 9.

4. How did Earl Gillespie build a successful produce business?

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

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

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

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

9. What was "milk sickness"?

10. Describe the education Flora Youngblood received as a child.

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