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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) Gut a chicken.
(b) Remove the eyes from a hog's head.
(c) Kill a snake.
(d) Build a fire.

2. What was "This is the Way I was Raised Up" written on?
(a) Small piece of paper.
(b) Cardboard Box.
(c) Back of the People Magazine.
(d) Tissue.

3. What was NOT added to the clay to help the chinking in the chimney set up more quickly?
(a) Barley
(b) Rice
(c) Rye
(d) Wheat

4. How does Wigginton explain that the information in this book was originally given to the people that were interviewed?
(a) People just seemed to know it.
(b) Written down in family Bibles.
(c) Passed generation to generation.
(d) Sang about in songs.

5. What year was Foxfire established?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1958.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Arie say she is going to make?

2. What does Mrs. Watts say her brothers used pine to build?

3. How do the authors say they have written down the information on building a log cabin?

4. Aunt Arie tells the students not to do anything that they wouldn't want WHO to know?

5. Why is it suggested that the foundation be at least 18" high?

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