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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 was "This is the Way I was Raised Up" written on?
(a) Back of the People Magazine.
(b) Small piece of paper.
(c) Tissue.
(d) Cardboard Box.

2. What two things were said to have been brought to the forests our ancestors settled in the chapter titled "Tools and Skills?"
(a) Tools and faith.
(b) Knowledge and determination.
(c) Love and hope.
(d) Tools and igenuity.

3. Where did Lon learn to make chairs?
(a) He learned on his own.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandmother.

4. Which of the following is NOT a reason that someone might receive a blanket?
(a) Someone's house burned down.
(b) A baby was born.
(c) They were moving away.
(d) A couple were married.

5. What do the students call the Dutch Oven?
(a) A bread pan.
(b) One of the most useful cooking utensils.
(c) Cake slab.
(d) A timeless invention.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following national groups have supported Foxfire?

2. In what area do the people interviewed for Foxfire live?

3. How were things fried?

4. What does Mrs. Harriet Echols say that she used to put in her soap to thicken up the soap?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is Beulah's house described?

5. Describe the Friendship Quilt.

6. Describe what a 'rope bed' is.

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

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

9. Explain how the Watt's family lived.

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

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