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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) Crazy due to living in the woods alone.
(b) Deaf due to fever.
(c) Blind due to cataracts.
(d) Paralyzed due to stroke.

2. What does Mrs. Watts say her brothers used pine to build?
(a) Bikes.
(b) Sled.
(c) Wagon.
(d) Bows and Arrows.

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

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

5. What two things are white oak splits traditionally used for?
(a) Furniture and laundry baskets.
(b) Making guitars and banjos.
(c) Bottoming chairs and baskets.
(d) Bottoming chairs and animal pens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do the students say it took them to gather information about building the log cabin?

2. What does Aunt Arie ask the students to do when they walk into her house for the first time?

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

4. Why does Aunt Arie say she never left her home?

5. Where is Aunt Arie's husband at the time the story is written?

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