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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 did other blacksmiths ride a horse ten or fifteen miles to get Jud's uncle to do for them?
(a) Temper a gun spring.
(b) Sharpen their tools.
(c) Shoe a mule.
(d) Play the fiddle.

2. What did the house serve as during Mitch Anderson's youth?
(a) A school.
(b) A gathering place for locals.
(c) A church.
(d) A general store.

3. What did D. B. Dayton's family sell for extra money during his childhood?
(a) Apples.
(b) Walnuts.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Sassafras.

4. What job did D. B. Dayton and his family have at the Vogel Lumber Company?
(a) Fire watching to make sure no fires burned the rail fences.
(b) Lumber stacking.
(c) Saw operating.
(d) Selling the lumber.

5. Why did Henry Harrison Mayes once attend a strip show?
(a) He had a crush on a dancer.
(b) To understand it before he stood against it.
(c) To protest the show.
(d) To preach at the audience and the dancers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only time of the year that D. B. Dayton's family used the eggs they raised on their farm?

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

3. What helped people interviewed in Foxfire 9 escape panthers when they were being pursued by these wild animals?

4. What did Charles Phillips use stones to indicate?

5. When did the Rothell house get electricity installed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tales arose over the years about panthers in the wild of the Appalachian mountains and how did dogs and horses help mountaineers escape panther attacks?

2. How did Jud Nelson get started in the blacksmithing business?

3. Why did Henry Harrison Mayes once attend a strip show and what consequences arose because of his going to the show?

4. What object was left at Charles Phillips' funeral and how did that object help commemorate Phillips' ministry?

5. How did a call to preach help Charles Phillips learn to read?

6. At what specific place did Charles Phillips feel led to pray and how did he use pebbles to record information about the people for whom he prayed?

7. How did Jud Nelson's Uncle John once teach another blacksmith that blacksmiths have to pay attention to what they're doing?

8. What kind of syrup did Jud Nelson's father and uncles make and for what was the syrup used during Jud's youth?

9. What were some mountain superstitions reported in the chapter entitled "Haint Tales and Other Scary Stories" in Foxfire 9?

10. How did the Foxfire organization get the Rothell cabin from its original location to Mountain City and why did the organization not complete its restoration of the cabin?

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