The Foxfire Book Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Eliot Wigginton
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Foxfire Book Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Eliot Wigginton
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 was NOT added to the clay to help the chinking in the chimney set up more quickly?
(a) Wheat
(b) Rice
(c) Barley
(d) Rye

2. What does Aunt Arie ask the students to do when they walk into her house for the first time?
(a) Gut a chicken.
(b) Kill a snake.
(c) Build a fire.
(d) Remove the eyes from a hog's head.

3. What does Aunt Arie say she is going to make?
(a) Sausage.
(b) Souse Meat.
(c) Jerky.
(d) Bacon.

4. What did the sign read when the students reached Lon Reid's property?
(a) No revenuers.
(b) Beware of Dogs.
(c) Beware of Bees.
(d) No trespassing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Watts say her dolls were made from?

2. What tool is needed for drilling holes?

3. Why is the wood for chairs usually gathered in the winter or fall?

4. What kind of grease does Pearl Martin say she usually likes to use in her soap, although you can use most any kind?

5. What does Aunt Arie say she will do with the eyes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Emma Jean sees when she sits in on a quilting circle and what the women tell her about the quilting circles.

2. Describe the events that surround the first time Mrs. Watts sees a car.

3. What are some of the things that Lon is noted for doing?

4. Describe what Aunt Arie tells the students about doing things they are ashamed of?

5. Describe the Friendship Quilt.

6. Explain why the Foxfire magazine is originally started?

7. How are Dutch Ovens used?

8. What is explained to the reader about picking the correct timber for making white oak splits?

9. How is Beulah's house described?

10. What does Wigginton say is part of the Foxfire magazine although proper English is not a concern?

(see the answer keys)

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