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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of grease does Pearl Martin say she usually likes to use in her soap, although you can use most any kind?
(a) Chicken grease.
(b) Whatever she has on hand.
(c) Hog grease.
(d) Mutton tallow.

2. Hickory was a very desirable wood but what was a drawback of this wood?
(a) It splintered out easily.
(b) It would bow badly in humid weather.
(c) It was hard to work.
(d) It attracked termites.

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

4. What are the Sleepers?
(a) Hide-a-beds.
(b) Sky-lights.
(c) Floor beams of the cabin.
(d) Tools that are used to create notches.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What year was Foxfire established?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1958.

11. What were early chimneys called?
(a) Smoke stacks.
(b) Brick Rock chimenys
(c) Stick-and-Mud chimneys.
(d) Possum cages.

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

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

14. 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 where she got her recipe.
(c) They ask if it is better than dial soap.
(d) They ask what colors she can make.

15. What does Bill Lamb say a out the first chimney he ever built?
(a) A tornado took it a week after it was built.
(b) It'd smoke apossum out'a th' house.
(c) It took a year to build.
(d) It lasted one winter and fell appart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is green wood put on after the fire has caught?

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

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

4. Why does Aunt Arie say she never left her home?

5. What does Aunt Arie ask the students to do when they walk into her house for the first time?

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