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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is said to be just as important as the tools?
(a) The ability to pass this information down to future generations.
(b) The knowledge to use them.
(c) Food and shelter.
(d) Hope and Love.

2. Where did Lon learn to make chairs?
(a) His father.
(b) He learned on his own.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His grandfather.

3. Which of these is NOT used as an acceptable wood for making the chairs?
(a) Pine.
(b) Ash.
(c) Maple.
(d) Oak.

4. Which of these methods was not a way to cure wood?
(a) Boil.
(b) Salt the Ends.
(c) Use Dry Kiln.
(d) Stack the Lumber Crosswise.

5. How long does it take to produce coals?
(a) You have to check the fire periodically.
(b) Twenty minutes.
(c) Three hours.
(d) An hour.

6. Aunt Arie tells the students not to do anything that they wouldn't want WHO to know?
(a) God.
(b) Grams.
(c) Mommy and Poppy.
(d) Yarn Pastor.

7. Why does Aunt Arie say she never left her home?
(a) She was too scared.
(b) This is where her stuff was.
(c) She couldn't stand to leave her home.
(d) She felt as if someone was coming.

8. What are Aunt Arie's stories said to be "spiced" with?
(a) Exagerations.
(b) Lies.
(c) Local gossip.
(d) Quaint Euphemisms.

9. What are the students responsible for getting when Foxfire is first started?
(a) Paper.
(b) Subscribers.
(c) Money.
(d) Photos.

10. When does Mrs. Algie Norton say she saw her first real mattress?
(a) When she was grown.
(b) When she was about ten or twelve.
(c) When her daughter got married.
(d) She has never seen a real mattress.

11. In the beginning of 'Wood,' what does the author say is the most vital factor in determining the way of life of a self-sufficient people in a particular area?
(a) Ecosystem.
(b) Economy.
(c) Population.
(d) Natural resources.

12. What does the Watt family leave their home to do as described by Mrs. Watts?
(a) See a car.
(b) Go find a doctor.
(c) Get supplies from the store.
(d) Get a new dog.

13. What is NOT included in the article 'Rope, Straw, and Feathers are to Sleep on?'
(a) Diagrams.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Places to buy your own hand crafted feather bed.
(d) Instructions.

14. Hickory was a very desirable wood but what was a drawback of this wood?
(a) It attracked termites.
(b) It splintered out easily.
(c) It was hard to work.
(d) It would bow badly in humid weather.

15. What were early chimneys called?
(a) Brick Rock chimenys
(b) Possum cages.
(c) Stick-and-Mud chimneys.
(d) Smoke stacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were many of the tools made out of that the pioneers used?

2. What kind of meat does Aunt Arie say she doesn't want?

3. What was said would happen to a young girl that slept under a new quilt?

4. What do the students call the Dutch Oven?

5. What often attacked fresh chinking in chimneys?

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