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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was used for bread when cornmeal and wheat could not be ground?
(a) Corn.
(b) Onions.
(c) Chestnuts.
(d) Potatoes.

2. What does Mrs. Watts say her dolls were made from?
(a) Animal Bones.
(b) Sticks.
(c) Hay.
(d) Animal Hide.

3. 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.

4. 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) Sang about in songs.
(c) Passed generation to generation.
(d) People just seemed to know it.

5. How many copies of Foxfire are printed the very first time it is printed?
(a) They Lost Count.
(b) A Thousand.
(c) Six Hundred.
(d) Two Hundred.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the last thing that Mrs. Watts describes in her essay?

5. What often attacked fresh chinking in chimneys?

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