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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were things fried?
(a) The pan was suspended on a metal frame 3-5 inches above.
(b) Depended on the meat.
(c) The pan was put into the middle of the fire.
(d) Hot coals were raked onto the hearth and the pan put on it.

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

3. How does Wigginton explain that the information in this book was originally given to the people that were interviewed?
(a) Written down in family Bibles.
(b) People just seemed to know it.
(c) Passed generation to generation.
(d) Sang about in songs.

4. What did the sign read when the students reached Lon Reid's property?
(a) Beware of Bees.
(b) Beware of Dogs.
(c) No trespassing.
(d) No revenuers.

5. Aunt Arie tells the students not to do anything that they wouldn't want WHO to know?
(a) Mommy and Poppy.
(b) Yarn Pastor.
(c) Grams.
(d) God.

6. What is crucial when making splits?
(a) Picking the correct timber.
(b) Making the splits long enough.
(c) Making each split even.
(d) Making clean cuts.

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

8. What is Lon Reid said to still have?
(a) An ox and cart.
(b) His mother and father's sorghum mill.
(c) Active bee gum hives.
(d) An old stihl.

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

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

11. Which of the following is NOT a reason that someone might receive a blanket?
(a) A baby was born.
(b) They were moving away.
(c) A couple were married.
(d) Someone's house burned down.

12. At the end of the interview what does the student say men like Lon live oblivious to?
(a) That there are skyscrapers covering the world.
(b) That the world has changed so much in the past 100 years.
(c) That men are on the moon.
(d) That there is anything unique about Lon's life.

13. What do the students say that quilting patterns are like?
(a) Ballads.
(b) Family stories.
(c) Folk lore and legends.
(d) Rumors.

14. Why does Aunt Arie say she never left her home?
(a) This is where her stuff was.
(b) She couldn't stand to leave her home.
(c) She was too scared.
(d) She felt as if someone was coming.

15. Where did Lon learn to make chairs?
(a) His father.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) He learned on his own.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area do the people interviewed for Foxfire live?

2. What does Mrs. Watts say her brothers used pine to build?

3. What is the fireplace once said to have been?

4. What was Eliot Wigginton's job at the time that he helped to start Foxfire?

5. What does Mrs. Watts say her dolls were made from?

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