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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of these is NOT used as an acceptable wood for making the chairs?
(a) Pine.
(b) Maple.
(c) Oak.
(d) Ash.

3. What does Mrs. Harriet Echols say that she used to put in her soap to thicken up the soap?
(a) Soft corn shucks.
(b) Seeds.
(c) Pieces of rope.
(d) Hair.

4. What was NOT added to the clay to help the chinking in the chimney set up more quickly?
(a) Wheat
(b) Rye
(c) Barley
(d) Rice

5. What does Mrs. Watts say was their reaction to the gifts that Santa Clause had left them?
(a) They were pleased.
(b) They had wanted more but didn't say anything.
(c) They were too sick to enjoy them.
(d) The objects were hid away and saved as if gold.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the earliest simple mattresses called?

3. What do the Friendship Quilts typically have stitched on them?

4. When does Mrs. Carrie Dillard Garrison say that that she used to make her soap?

5. What does Aunt Arie say she is going to make?

(see the answer key)

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