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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many copies of Foxfire are printed the very first time it is printed?
(a) Six Hundred.
(b) Two Hundred.
(c) They Lost Count.
(d) A Thousand.

2. Which of these methods was not a way to cure wood?
(a) Stack the Lumber Crosswise.
(b) Boil.
(c) Salt the Ends.
(d) Use Dry Kiln.

3. What is done to the Dutch Oven before cooking with it?
(a) Dry scrubbed.
(b) Greased heavily.
(c) Preheated.
(d) Washed.

4. What did Mrs. Watts' family use to make coffee?
(a) Peanuts.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Cornmeal.
(d) Chestnuts.

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

6. In the beginning of 'Wood,' what does the author say is the most vital factor in determining the way of life of a self-sufficient people in a particular area?
(a) Ecosystem.
(b) Economy.
(c) Natural resources.
(d) Population.

7. What was Eliot Wigginton's job at the time that he helped to start Foxfire?
(a) High School Teacher.
(b) Carnival Worker.
(c) Reporter.
(d) Preacher.

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

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

10. What does Mrs. Pearl Martin say she does to clean her straw bed?
(a) She takes a wet cloth and wets it down.
(b) She hangs it up and gives it a thrashing.
(c) She takes the straw out and suns it then puts it back in.
(d) She puts new straw in it once a year.

11. What does Aunt Arie ask the students to do when they walk into her house for the first time?
(a) Remove the eyes from a hog's head.
(b) Build a fire.
(c) Kill a snake.
(d) Gut a chicken.

12. What happened to the once plentiful Chestnut trees?
(a) Global warming.
(b) Blight.
(c) Cut down by farmers.
(d) Bugs.

13. What tool is needed for drilling holes?
(a) Mallet.
(b) Drawing knife.
(c) Go-Devil.
(d) Auger.

14. What kind of vehicle drives past Mrs. Watts and her family?
(a) A Large Pickup.
(b) T-Model Ford.
(c) An Army Vehicle.
(d) An Old Jalopy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Mrs. Lester Norton say that they changed the straw in her straw mattress?

3. What is the last thing that Mrs. Watts describes in her essay?

4. What does Aunt Arie say she will do with the eyes?

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

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