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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Chimney Building".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who are the students NOT told to interview for Foxfire?
(a) Historians.
(b) Area Residents.
(c) Parents .
(d) Grandparents.

3. What does Bill Lamb say a out the first chimney he ever built?
(a) A tornado took it a week after it was built.
(b) It lasted one winter and fell appart.
(c) It took a year to build.
(d) It'd smoke apossum out'a th' house.

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Aunt Arie's stories said to be "spiced" with?

2. What does Mrs. Watts say she and her brothers received one Christmas from Santa Clause?

3. What were early chimneys called?

4. What does Wigginton suggest could be an answer to student failure?

5. What kind of vehicle drives past Mrs. Watts and her family?

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