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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What are the students responsible for getting when Foxfire is first started?

5. What do the students ask about making homemade soap that makes Pearl Martin laugh?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain why the Foxfire magazine is originally started?

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

4. What are the uses for wood as it is described in the first chapter of the section titled "Wood?"

5. How is Beulah's house described?

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

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

8. What are some of the things that Lon is noted for doing?

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

10. What does the last paragraph in the section titled 'Wood' say about wood and the mountain men?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the people in the book are described as self-sufficient.

Part 1) Describe what it means to be self-sufficient.

Part 2) How is being self-sufficient today different from that of Aunt Arie or Hillard Green? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

There is a lot of solitude talked about in the story.

Part 1) What does it indicate that so many of the people in the story talked about their solitude or the fact that they were cut off from the world?

Part 2) What seems to be the main reason for the solitude that people endured?

Part 3) What does it appear that the solitude gave the people?

Essay Topic 3

There is a lot of people that talk about their lives and how proud they are of their family or other pieces of this life.

Part 1) Discuss pride and the general role that it played in the book.

Part 2) Pick three characters from the book that seemed like people that had sincere pride in their lives. Explain why you chose these three.

Part 3) Do these people seem to be boastful in their pride? Explain why or why not?

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