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

2. What were early chimneys called?
(a) Brick Rock chimenys
(b) Stick-and-Mud chimneys.
(c) Smoke stacks.
(d) Possum cages.

3. What did a chimney have to do so that it didn't smoke?
(a) Face southeast.
(b) Go straight up.
(c) Draw.
(d) Have a hole under it to let the ashes fall out.

4. What did Dan's father say to do if the limbs on the white oak droop?
(a) Let the tree stand.
(b) Cut off the limbs and let it be for a week.
(c) Avoid all trees within a twenty foot spread of that one.
(d) Take that tree.

5. What were many of the tools made out of that the pioneers used?
(a) Blood, sweat, and tears.
(b) Wood.
(c) Metal.
(d) Rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the sign read when the students reached Lon Reid's property?

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

3. Which of these methods was not a way to cure wood?

4. How far does Mrs. Watts say they had to travel to see the car?

5. Where did Lon learn to make chairs?

(see the answer key)

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