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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Friendship Quilts typically have stitched on them?
(a) The date the quilt was created.
(b) A name for the person whom the quilt would be given.
(c) A verse from the Bible.
(d) The names of those quilting.

2. What does Foxfire first start out as?
(a) Magazine.
(b) Oral Report.
(c) Book Series.
(d) Small Newspaper.

3. What does Mrs. Watts say she and her brothers received one Christmas from Santa Clause?
(a) Three pieces of candy and an orange.
(b) An apple and a bag of marbles.
(c) A candy bar and some new socks.
(d) Pig tails and a lump of coal.

4. What do the students ask about making homemade soap that makes Pearl Martin laugh?
(a) They ask about putting perfume in it.
(b) They ask if it is better than dial soap.
(c) They ask where she got her recipe.
(d) They ask what colors she can make.

5. What has caused the loss of the fine art of building a genuine log cabin?
(a) European influence.
(b) Lack of trees.
(c) Desire for unique looking houses.
(d) Trend toward an easier life.

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

7. What was said would happen to a young girl that slept under a new quilt?
(a) She would soon find a large sum of money.
(b) She would dream of the one she would marry.
(c) She would be in good health for the next six months.
(d) She would marry within a year.

8. In what area do the people interviewed for Foxfire live?
(a) Ozark Mountains.
(b) Mississippi River.
(c) Appalachian Mountains.
(d) Kentucky Plains.

9. What is the fireplace once said to have been?
(a) What brought families together.
(b) The very center of home life.
(c) Something that was often overlooked.
(d) A fanciful thing that people desired.

10. What often attacked fresh chinking in chimneys?
(a) Wasps.
(b) Bees.
(c) Rodents.
(d) Birds.

11. What might happen if there wasn't a proper footing on the chimney?
(a) It could catch on fire.
(b) Animals would burrow under it.
(c) It wouldn't draw properly.
(d) It might tilt away from the house or collapse.

12. What do the students say is one reason why they have asked Beulah to help them make a basket?
(a) She has offered.
(b) So they can learn from her.
(c) Because they enjoy her company.
(d) Because she makes good cakes.

13. What two things were said to have been brought to the forests our ancestors settled in the chapter titled "Tools and Skills?"
(a) Tools and faith.
(b) Love and hope.
(c) Tools and igenuity.
(d) Knowledge and determination.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Beulah say that she has had a possum head cooked for her in her past?

2. How were things fried?

3. What is said to be just as important as the tools?

4. What are the students responsible for getting when Foxfire is first started?

5. What was made from the white oak splits that were made during the article 'White Oak Splits?'

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