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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 NOT added to the clay to help the chinking in the chimney set up more quickly?
(a) Wheat
(b) Barley
(c) Rice
(d) Rye

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

3. What is Lon Reid said to still have?
(a) His mother and father's sorghum mill.
(b) An old stihl.
(c) An ox and cart.
(d) Active bee gum hives.

4. What was the Black Gum NOT used for?
(a) Toothbrushes.
(b) Wagon Wheels.
(c) Guitars.
(d) Bee gums.

5. When does Mrs. Algie Norton say she saw her first real mattress?
(a) When she was grown.
(b) She has never seen a real mattress.
(c) When she was about ten or twelve.
(d) When her daughter got married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were many of the tools made out of that the pioneers used?

2. What is NOT included in the article 'Rope, Straw, and Feathers are to Sleep on?'

3. What does the Watt family leave their home to do as described by Mrs. Watts?

4. What does Pearl Martin say about the coloring of homemade soap?

5. What does Mrs. Pearl Martin say she does to clean her straw bed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe what is explained about Chinking.

4. How is Beulah's house described?

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

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

7. Explain why the Foxfire magazine is originally started?

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

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

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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