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

2. What does Mrs. Claude Darnell suggest might be the reason that there has been a revival in an interest in quilting?
(a) It is a novelty.
(b) Because people want to get back to the good old days.
(c) Because they have fond memories of their grandparents quilting.
(d) Because it is a part of their heritage.

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

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

5. How long does it take to produce coals?
(a) Three hours.
(b) You have to check the fire periodically.
(c) An hour.
(d) Twenty minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Watts say she and her brothers received one Christmas from Santa Clause?

2. What happened to the once plentiful Chestnut trees?

3. Aunt Arie tells the students not to do anything that they wouldn't want WHO to know?

4. Why does Aunt Arie explain that she doesn't want to cut the eye if she can help it?

5. Why does the author, Paul Gillespie, say he is apprehensive about meeting Aunt Arie for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Beulah's house described?

2. What skills and tools are told about for building a log cabin?

3. What kind of questions do the girls ask Pearl Martin?

4. Explain how the Watt's family lived.

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

6. How are the mallet and maul described in 'Tools and Skills.'

7. Describe what is explained about Chinking.

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

9. What does Aunt Arie tell the students about her parents?

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

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