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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 Christmas gifts did Nola Campbell receive as a child?
2. According to Foxfire researchers, what amount of money did most people spend in the Moore general store during the course of a year in the early days of the store's operation?
3. How many copies of the Foxfire books have been printed?
4. In what year was Flora Youngblood born?
5. What did Roy Roberts, another owner of a general store, sell to the train engineers as they drove through his town?
Short Essay Questions
1. How have fictional stories treated foxfire and other glowing plants?
2. From whom did Nola Campbell learn to make pottery?
3. What are some of the home remedies that Flora Youngblood's father, Henry, used?
4. What kinds of books have been printed by Foxfire Press and what kinds of books does Foxfire Press plan to print in the future?
5. What was the difference between a summer quilt and a winter quilt?
6. What reasons did Elliot Wigginton give in the Introduction for bringing the Foxfire series to an end with Foxfire 9?
7. What were some of the Indian superstitions Nola Campbell encountered on the Catawba reservation?
8. What was "milk sickness"?
9. Explain what foxfire is and what makes it glow.
10. How did Bob McCall keep track of his customers' credit purchases in his general store when he couldn't read or write?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the concept of the general store with a modern grocery store. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the concept of oral traditions and the oral passing down of cultural, agricultural, and artistic knowledge from one generation to the next as illustrated in Foxfire 9. Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the depiction of women in Foxfire 9. Are any of the women interviewed 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.
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