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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. Why did Nola Campbell's mother move the family off the reservation when Nola's father died?

2. How were the topics to be featured in the new series of books from Foxfire Press determined?

3. Why did Roy Roberts build kilns?

4. What cure was used by Annie Henry for a nosebleed?

5. What did Edith Cannon's mother use as a backing for her quilts?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ed and Martha Roane help their customers get through the depression?

2. What reasons did Elliot Wigginton give in the Introduction for bringing the Foxfire series to an end with Foxfire 9?

3. What racial prejudice did Nola Campbell experience in her life?

4. For what purpose did Flora Youngblood first learn to make baskets and from what did she make her baskets?

5. What was "milk sickness"?

6. How did Flora Youngblood's father, Henry, learn herbal healing?

7. Describe some of the quilt patterns mentioned in Foxfire 9.

8. What was a crazy quilt?

9. What was the difference between a summer quilt and a winter quilt?

10. What troubles did Irish Bill Moore have with roughriders after the Civil War?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the layout and furnishing of the Ruthell's log cabin. What things does the cabin illustrate about mountain life in the early twentieth century? Why do you think the Foxfire organization wants to restore this cabin? Cite examples from the text to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Carolyn Stradley's life with Flora Youngblood's life and Nola Campbell's life.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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