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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Watts say she and her brothers received one Christmas from Santa Clause?
(a) A candy bar and some new socks.
(b) Pig tails and a lump of coal.
(c) An apple and a bag of marbles.
(d) Three pieces of candy and an orange.

3. What are the Sleepers?
(a) Floor beams of the cabin.
(b) Sky-lights.
(c) Tools that are used to create notches.
(d) Hide-a-beds.

4. What might happen if there wasn't a proper footing on the chimney?
(a) It wouldn't draw properly.
(b) It might tilt away from the house or collapse.
(c) It could catch on fire.
(d) Animals would burrow under it.

5. What happened to the once plentiful Chestnut trees?
(a) Global warming.
(b) Blight.
(c) Cut down by farmers.
(d) Bugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill Lamb say a out the first chimney he ever built?

2. Why does the author, Paul Gillespie, say he is apprehensive about meeting Aunt Arie for the first time?

3. What was used for bread when cornmeal and wheat could not be ground?

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

5. What was Eliot Wigginton's job at the time that he helped to start Foxfire?

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