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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Rope, Straw, and Feathers are to Sleep on".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ailment does Aunt Arie have according to the author?
(a) Paralyzed due to stroke.
(b) Deaf due to fever.
(c) Blind due to cataracts.
(d) Crazy due to living in the woods alone.

2. When does Mrs. Lester Norton say that they changed the straw in her straw mattress?
(a) Whenever a new one is needed.
(b) Right before flu season hits.
(c) Whenever it got flat.
(d) Thrashing time each year.

3. What is NOT needed for hewing?
(a) Broadaxe.
(b) Mallet.
(c) Foot adze.
(d) Pole axe.

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

5. What are Aunt Arie's stories said to be "spiced" with?
(a) Local gossip.
(b) Lies.
(c) Exagerations.
(d) Quaint Euphemisms.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many copies of Foxfire are printed the very first time it is printed?

2. What often attacked fresh chinking in chimneys?

3. What are the Sleepers?

4. What does the term 'Dressing' refer to?

5. What does Mrs. Harriet Echols say was done to clean a rope bed?

(see the answer key)

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