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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 there is anything unique about Lon's life.
(c) That the world has changed so much in the past 100 years.
(d) That men are on the moon.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term 'Dressing' refer to?

2. What are the Sleepers?

3. What does Wigginton say is NOT a primary concern in the magazine?

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

5. Which of the following is NOT a reason that someone might receive a blanket?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what is explained about Chinking.

2. What do the different women interviewed have to say about making the soap?

3. What information is given in 'An Old Chair Maker Shows How?'

4. What instructions does Aunt Arie give about making souse meat?

5. Describe how the article "This is the Way I was Raised Up" was written.

6. In the chapter entitled "Aunt Arie", what does the author suggest might be the reasons for the void between youth and the older generations which the author felt?

7. What are a few of the tales that are told about Chimneys from those interviewed in 'Chimney Building?'

8. What kind of information is to go into the Foxfire magazine?

9. How are Dutch Ovens used?

10. Describe the differences between using the fire in the winter and in the warmer months.

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