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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term 'Dressing' refer to?
(a) Bandaging up wounds while working.
(b) Smoothing surfaces of boards and beams.
(c) Getting dressed.
(d) Painting and detailing finished works.

2. What are the students responsible for getting when Foxfire is first started?
(a) Money.
(b) Photos.
(c) Subscribers.
(d) Paper.

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

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

5. Why is the wood for chairs usually gathered in the winter or fall?
(a) Because sap levels are lowest then.
(b) Because this is the time of year when the trees begin to slow their growing.
(c) It is the time best for allowing the trees to set out and cure.
(d) This is when the barks show the best woods.

6. Why is green wood put on after the fire has caught?
(a) It was easier to find.
(b) It gives off more heat and lasts longer.
(c) It saves the seasoned wood.
(d) It gives the food a better taste.

7. What does the Watt family leave their home to do as described by Mrs. Watts?
(a) Go find a doctor.
(b) Get a new dog.
(c) Get supplies from the store.
(d) See a car.

8. What is the last thing that Mrs. Watts describes in her essay?
(a) When her brother's got married.
(b) The first time she left her home to go to the city.
(c) The first car her family ever saw.
(d) When her parents died.

9. What does it suggest in the instructions that the foundation of the log cabin should be made out of?
(a) Large boulders placed at the four corners of the house and each 10 foot between.
(b) Cured white oat logs that have been scorched to prevent termite damage.
(c) Solid rock spanning the length and width of the house.
(d) An elevated dirt floor.

10. What is NOT needed for hewing?
(a) Foot adze.
(b) Mallet.
(c) Broadaxe.
(d) Pole axe.

11. How far does Mrs. Watts say they had to travel to see the car?
(a) She was too little to recal how far.
(b) Over the Mountain a far piece.
(c) Five Miles.
(d) One Mile.

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

13. What was used for bread when cornmeal and wheat could not be ground?
(a) Chestnuts.
(b) Corn.
(c) Onions.
(d) Potatoes.

14. What does Aunt Arie say she will do with the eyes?
(a) Throw them away.
(b) Use them to make jelly.
(c) Grind them up in the sausage.
(d) Put them in a soup.

15. What was "This is the Way I was Raised Up" written on?
(a) Back of the People Magazine.
(b) Cardboard Box.
(c) Tissue.
(d) Small piece of paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of meat does Aunt Arie say she doesn't want?

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

3. Who are the students NOT told to interview for Foxfire?

4. Where did Lon learn to make chairs?

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

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