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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What career did Carrie Stewart begin at age 74?

2. Whose death made Anna Tutt's childhood even more difficult?

3. What type of glaze is made of silt ashes and sand or powdered glass and water?

4. What shape kiln is common in the South?

5. For what did Cheever Meaders use iron lifters?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has the Foxfire organization worked with the community in planning their Mountain City project?

2. Explain what a pug mill or mud mill is.

3. How did slavery and being black affect Harley Penland's education?

4. Describe Arie Meaders' schooling in 1912.

5. How has Anna Tutt seen white people treat black people during her life?

6. How did a white schoolteacher help Viola Lenoir's family when Viola was young?

7. Describe the funding issues the Mountain City project faces.

8. Explain the surprise Harley Penland received during World War I.

9. Explain why Cheever Meaders did not use a glaze on his flowerpots but did use one on his other ware.

10. How does Eliot Wigginton think the widening of the highway will affect the town of Mountain City?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the depiction of women in "Foxfire 8." Are women in positions of leadership? What characteristics and roles are ascribed to women in the Appalachian mountain community? Do the men in the mountains treat the women as equals or do they try to dominate them? Cite at least three examples from the text to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of self-reliance or self-sufficiency in "Foxfire 8." How is this theme illustrated in the handicrafts and other aspects of Appalachian life described in the book? Cite examples from the text to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the concept of oral traditions and the passing down of cultural, agricultural, and artistic knowledge from one generation to the next as illustrated in "Foxfire 8." Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.

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