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

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

3. What was made from the white oak splits that were made during the article 'White Oak Splits?'
(a) A jug.
(b) A large chair.
(c) A guitar.
(d) Two baskets.

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

5. What does Mrs. Watts say her dolls were made from?
(a) Hay.
(b) Animal Bones.
(c) Sticks.
(d) Animal Hide.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Mrs. Algie Norton say she saw her first real mattress?

2. What has caused the loss of the fine art of building a genuine log cabin?

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

4. What ailment does Aunt Arie have according to the author?

5. How do the authors say they have written down the information on building a log cabin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the Friendship Quilt.

3. Describe what a 'rope bed' is.

4. Describe what Aunt Arie tells the students about doing things they are ashamed of?

5. Describe what is explained about Chinking.

6. How are the instructions divided up in the chapter titled 'Building a Log Cabin?'

7. 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?

8. Describe the events that surround the first time Mrs. Watts sees a car.

9. Why do the students realize that it would be impossible to give a set a blue prints for each cabin?

10. Describe what Emma Jean sees when she sits in on a quilting circle and what the women tell her about the quilting circles.

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